Word: separatist
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...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...
...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...
Spain, comfortably distant from the sound of guns, profited enormously from high prices and increased production of grain, olive oil, beet sugar. Shipping companies made killings. But by strengthening the industrial and financial power of the Basques and the Catalans, who were separatist in their politics, this war prosperity helped to undermine the monarchy. Spanish laborers drifted over the Pyrenees to France to work for war-time wages and sent money home. Yet with ownership of land and capital heavily concentrated in a few hands, peasants and stay-at-home workers failed to share in war profits...
...find CzechoSlovak gendarmes patrolling the city. The Hlinka Guards were disarmed and interned. From Prague President Dr. Emil Hacha fired Slovakia's Cabinet. Its Premier, Monsignor Dr. Joseph Tiso, was shut up in a Jesuit monastery. Eventually Dr. Karol Sidor, a nationalist and Hlinka Guardsman but not a separatist, was made Premier. Apparently the plot was crushed. But just then ousted Premier Tiso smuggled a telegram out of the monastery...