Word: separatist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have gone through the difficult processes of liberation and adjustment, know of our own experience how great the difficulties can be. ... Our own Revolutionary War left behind it, in the words of one American historian, 'an eddy of lawlessness and disregard of human life.' There were separatist movements. . . . There were insurrections. These difficulties we worked out for ourselves as the peoples of the liberated areas of Europe . . . will work out their difficulties for themselves...
...January 1918, when a German-sponsored separatist movement proclaimed the autonomy of the Flemish provinces, the Belgian High Court ordered the immediate arrest of the political leaders concerned. The Germans freed their protégés, sent the magistrates to jail. In protest, the entire judiciary struck...
...must communicate to you [Vichy Radio] a dispatch of the greatest importance. M. Pierre Laval has just arrived by parachute in a small village in Massachusetts. M. Laval apparently bears interesting proposals which he will not discuss with anyone except authorized representatives of the Separatist French Movement in America. . . . According to the very latest news, M. Laval is not able to find the representative of the suppressed French minorities because he is in Ireland with the American Expeditionary Force." Other developments...
...striking significance was the fact that the declaration, like Britain's offer, officially recognized the Moslem League's demands for a separate Moslem state. Hitherto Congress has loftily insisted that the separatist talk is merely a threat which would not be strongly supported among India's great 80,000,000 Moslem minority...
Whether this is true or not, the Madras declaration, by recognizing the separatist demands, may paradoxically prove to be an important step toward India's wartime and post-war unity. But the first reaction of some Congress leaders to the declaration was shocked disapproval. In Calcutta Congress President Maulana Abdulkalam Azad said that he was pained by C.R.'s attitude...