Word: secessionism
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¶ Passed the Statute of Westminster confirming the Imperial Conference decisions of 1926 and 1930 that "dominion status" implies among other rights the right of secession (TIME, June 30, 1930); sent the Statute of Westminster to disgruntled King George V for enforced "royal approval.''
Orator James Ramsay MacDonald admitted in 3,000 sonorous words that the $1,000,000 Conference had virtually failed. It broke down on the specific job of trying to draft a new constitution that would make the Government of India responsible chiefly to an Indian Parliament instead of to Great...
Meanwhile officials of Mukden's Chinese Provincial Government had fled in headlong fear. (No. 1 Committeeman: Mr. Quan Shinkai, once chief secretary to the late, barbaric War Lord Chang Tso-lin.) They were replaced by an un savory group of Chinese calling themselves the Peoples Preservation Committee who seemed disposed...
As Foreign Minister, Baron Shidehara whitewashed as best he could the indiscreet gloating of Japan's War Minister at "secession movements'' in Manchuria. He despatched to the Chinese Government and to the world press a note in which he said: "The Japanese Government has prohibited all its nationals from assisting...
In 1862 the women of the Confederacy were called upon to make a strange sacrifice in the cause of Secession. Their army wanted all the silk dresses in the South. Chests, closets, wardrobes were ransacked and bales of silk dresses were sent to a designated station. There a battery of...