Word: separatist
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...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...
...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...
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...