Word: secessionism
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¶ Correspondents nearly all believe that if the British Parliament (on a recommendation from the Round Table) grants India full "dominion status," the Gandhite Independence Movement can be diverted into that channel. If, however, the name only of "do-minion status" is granted (with its implicit "right of secession" temporarily...
Playwright Sherwood's show begins when Miss Moran's father, a South Dakota Senator, comes to New York. Both he and his wife are definitely opposed to the city, advocate its secession from the union. No less are they opposed to their daughter's marrying Mr. Kerr...
Some 300 prisoners were produced by the Federals, and some 200 by the Rebels, the only tangible evidence that both sides had made gains. In Montevideo, capital of Uruguay, where sympathy with the Rebels runs high, reports were zealously circulated that "a long conflict is in prospect, and, should decisive...
"The Right of Secession of any Dominion is nothing less than the foundation stone, the very test, of its independence and freedom. Any Dominion which gives up its right of secession or acknowledges that it has no right to secede has no right to talk of freedom."
The agitated House then passed an amendment recording that South Africa accepts the Imperial Conference Declaration of 1926 solely in the sense that Dominion Status includes the Right of Secession. Academic though even so acrimonious a debate may seem, it is of burning importance and vital bearing on the Indian...