Word: secessionist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...idea of secession was carried further by a group calling themselves "the Harvard Secessionist Society" which claimed 400 members pledged to the support of Toomey's proposal...
What began last fortnight as Spain's least bloody election in years was swelling last week into horrid crescendos of threatened social upheaval, secession and civil war. Overnight 30,000 political prisoners came bustling out of jail. They included the furious Catalonian secessionist, "President" Luis Companys, who had just begun to serve a 30-year stretch in a grim Andalusian prison for having proclaimed the industrial northeast of Spain the independent Republic of Catalonia (TIME, Oct. 15, 1934). Out of jail popped most of this suppressed Republic's Parliament and met in Barcelona, their capital. In Madrid more...
...part of the Ogpu Special Troops, an army of super-drilled and super-equipped Praetorian Guards of the Soviet Regime. Up to now they have "liquidated" with poison gas, machine-guns and shrapnel every trace of political opposition to Dictator Stalin. Most recently wiped out, behind censorship, was a secessionist movement in the Ukraine last winter...
Thus once again flared up the everlasting issue provided by Belgians who dwell near the Dutch frontier, speak Flemish and support secessionist movements. During the War, Allied censorship and propaganda concealed from U. S. citizens the existence in Belgium of a Flemish public opinion which disapproved completely of fighting Germany. Today in their great city of Antwerp, fourth largest port in Europe, portly Flemish merchants often shock U. S. exporters by talking like this...
...Nanking, Canton. Shanghai, passionately indignant Chinese likened Manchuria to Panama. When President Theodore Roosevelt wanted a strip of Colombian territory which spanned the Isthmus of Panama, they recalled, a secessionist movement conveniently arose. Panama broke away from Colombia. Promptly recognized as a new and sovereign state by President Roosevelt, she promptly permitted the U. S. to build the Panama Canal. Should Manchuria secede from China, what is to prevent Independent Manchuria from later merging with Japan? Full of suspicion, Chinese patriots scanned Japan for a Roosevelt. Is he Baron Kijuro Shidehara, famed Japanese Foreign Minister...