Word: separatist
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...cabinet or ambassadorial rank. The U.S. people, Hoffman told them, expected the European nations to carry out their pledges of joint action. He asked for a coordinated, four-year master plan. Said Hoffman: "Each participating nation must face up to readjustments . . . These readjustments cannot be made along the old separatist lines." European recovery "cannot be set in the frame of an old picture or traced on an old design." Hoffman observed afterward: "They all said 'yes' except one or two, who said...
...needed all the able leaders she could find. T.V.'s new job: Governor of his native Kwangtung Province. There, he would be able to get some first-hand experience in governing a province-which might prove quite a job, since it has been reported that there is a separatist movement in Kwangtung. He also might find time to squelch smuggling...
...provinces of Tonkin and Annam) within the French Union. But this was not enough. The Vietnamese wanted to incorporate the southern province of Cochin China, because, they said, its people were mainly Annamese. The French agreed to hold an election to ascertain the wishes of the Cochin Chinese. Meanwhile, separatist agitation in Cochin China must stop. The Vietnamese tartly replied that if the separatist case was not properly presented, the election would be unfair. Ho & Vo. Viet Nam is headed by Ho Chih-minh (He Who Enlightens), president of the Indo-Chinese Communist Party, who, with his little goat beard...
...Politburo Member Nikita Khruschev announced a "mass replacement of the [Communist] Party's leading personnel" in the Ukraine, the Soviet republic with the strongest separatist tendencies, and the area that suffered most from the war. Gone were "about half" of the Ukraine's executives, including 64% of the heads of regional Soviets and 67% of the directors of tractor stations. To replace their "bourgeois-nationalistic conceptions," Khruschev said that special party schools would be set up to give the new leaders (29 years after the founding of the Soviet Union) proper "ideological-political training...
...ideas of social justice, group welfare, loyalty. Like Five, Ten is in good equilibrium. But unlike Five, Ten is no longer neuter. There is not much companionship between boys and girls of this age. Anticipating adolescence, they are acutely conscious of sex differences, keep apart by intermittent feuds and separatist truces...