Word: separatist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President Sukarno's white-pillared presidential palace at Djakarta, Java came report after report of revolt and separatist movements, from the northern tip of Sumatra on the Indian Ocean to Borneo, the Celebes and Amboina, some 3,000 miles away in the Banda Sea. There was a new outbreak in South Sumatra. It is largely the reputation of Sukarno that holds the sprawling Republic of Indonesia together, but what threatened to sever it last week was a recent decision by Sukarno himself: to include Indonesia's Communists in his government...
...which has never cottoned to being dominated by distant Karachi, 1,000 miles across India. Emerging triumphant in East Pakistan was the United Front of fat, cantankerous, 83-year-old Fazlul Huq, whom the government ousted last year as provincial chief minister of East Pakistan on the ground of separatist "treasonable activities." Unable to suppress him, the Moslem League now decided to join him. The League and Huq's United Front will form a coalition under amiable Premier Mohammed Ali, and Huq's men will be represented in the Cabinet...
...when Moscow had to negotiate with a man it would have preferred to use as a mere instrument. Today, in his old age, Mao has become a full and equal member of the "collective leadership of world Communism," a man no longer to be suspected in the least of "separatist" or Titoist tendencies. Mao is the largest individual figure in world Communism, and overtops any single Russian leader...
...with Communist competition: "The Christian opposition to Communism should express itself as a Christian concern for the social revolution.:" Anthropologist Absolom Vikakazi of Natal, South Africa, currently teaching at the Kennedy School of Missions in Hartford, Conn., pointed to the growing movement in South Africa toward what are called separatist churches. These (there were about 800 at the last count in 1948) have broken away from the white-dominated mission churches, to set up their own, sometimes reverting to the practice of polygamy...
...good deal of popular misconception about Williams, "the prophet of religious liberty," and strives to answer and correct it. He ardently denies that the scope of his thought was "social rather than theological," and asserts that Williams came to his final ideas solely because he was originally a Separatist. From that position, and through a peculiar method of Bible interpretation called typology, he came ultimately to the separation of church and state, and to freedom from enforced religion within the church...