Word: secessionist
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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...
...Secessionist Movements...
...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 to declare the secession of Manchuria from the rest of China. Other secessionist movements were reported (by the Japanese press) in such leading Manchurian cities as Harbin and Kirin. Finally in Tokyo suave General Jiro Minami, Japanese War Minister credited with secretly ordering the whirl wind Japanese occupation of Manchuria (TIME, Sept. 28), appeared before the Japanese Cabinet last week with a sheaf of telegrams...
Japan Does a Roosevelt? In China proper last week secessionist news from Manchuria was branded as a mess of Japanese lies. Convalescent but still typhoid-feverish, Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, recently forced out of Mukden by General Honjo, declared from his Peiping hospital pallet, "China will never recognize a secessionist regime set up in Manchuria clearly under Japanese influence...
...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...