Word: separatist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spite of all France's new Government did to appease the conquerors, dark days lay ahead. A separatist movement appeared in Brittany, perhaps to be followed by other such movements by the Catalans, Basques, Corsicans, what not. In Switzerland the Duc de Guise, Bourbon pretender, was scheming to get the French Throne for his son, the Comte de Paris. Both Italy and Germany warned that the ''political bill of reckoning" had not yet been paid, would be dictated by "historic realism." France, said the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, "will not find her place on an equal basis with...
Even if the British do not lose the war, thinks Viton, they cannot win the peace. Unlike their enemies, they have everything to lose, nothing to gain. The Empire owes too much to "the resourcefulness and energy of the British people," too little to "objective material reality." "Powerful separatist movements" in South Africa, even in Canada, are a virtual certainty once the war is over. The war, says Viton, will be a forcing-bed for rebellion in the Colonies: the industrialization of natives, the use of natives in new colonial posts, the return of native soldiers, the rise...