Word: separatist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Teheran a Government spokesman announced that Armenians and others in Azerbaijan had rebelled against the Government; the insurgents were being armed from Russian trucks; the situation was "dangerous and painful." Leaders of the uprising were members of the new, separatist Democratic Party, an offshoot of the old Communist Tudeh Party...
...hottest issue at the polls will undoubtedly be Pakistan, with the League for and Congress against. The vote will show the real strength of the separatist trend. Commented the practical London Times: "The restoration of political life . . . even if it does not resolve the communal problem, will relate communal claims to ascertainable facts...
London Indian. Of the 104 passengers on the Mayflower when she rounded the hook of Cape Cod and dropped anchor in Provincetown harbor, none knew anything about farming or fishing. Forty-one were members of the Separatist sect, which had fled to Holland from Scrooby England, a dozen years before. Another 40 were good Anglican churchgoers, shopkeepers and clerks from London and Southwestern England, who had jumped at the chance offered them by the expedition's London backers to pick up a fortune in the new world. The remaining 23, like cooper John Alden, were bonded workmen or indentured...
...they formed active guerrilla bands, mostly under Communist leadership. In Arakan a typical resistance group, led by a left-wing Buddhist monk named U Pinnyathaiha, organized a food blockade to starve the Japs, partisan groups to kill them. The mainspring of the Burmese maquis was the Communist-controlled, strongly separatist Anti-Fascist League, which has already named a national government to take over the country when it becomes independent...
...reduced its food supplies to a bare existence point. What grain they had been able to grow, the profit-minded Sicilians had sold to the Roman market at handsome prices. Hunger and discomfort (shoes cost from $70 to $100 a pair) had fed the fires of rebellion and separatism. Separatist leaders, like the politician Andrea Finocchiaro-Aprile, had kept them stoked. When they died down a little, the Italian Government's efforts to create an army rekindled them. Sicilian students called to the colors had repeatedly rioted. Scores had been killed and wounded in clashes with the carabinieri...