Word: separatist
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That no simple civil war of two Spains, Leftists and Rightists, is being fought, made itself clear again last week as some other Spains became active afresh, notably the Basques and the Catalonians. These regions are violently separatist, even when Spain is at peace. The fact that today Catalonians and Basques are both classed as being with the Leftists of Valencia and Madrid makes them no less rugged individualists...
...Grand Orient. Franco affirmed that his Government would negotiate a concordat with the Vatican, insuring that Spain remain Catholic. He refused to answer whether he would support restoration of the Monarchy, refused to guess when Madrid might be captured. On the historic Spanish question of Catalonia, always violently separatist, the Generalissimo said: "Catalonia is as much a part of Spain as Lancashire is a part of England or Pennsylvania is a State in the Union. The world already knows something of the terrible suffering experienced by Catalonia under Red rule, of the destruction of private property and the murder...
Barcelona is the capital of Catalonia, a Spanish district so strongly Separatist that four years ago it won from Madrid a partial independence recently made complete (TIME, Aug. 31). Last week there was a chance that the Catalonian Communists may get the upper hand and establish a Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Likewise there was a chance that momentarily powerless Luis Companys, the Left Republican President of Catalonia, may regain control. But for the time being Barcelona was in the hands of Anarchists and its interesting condition could therefore be described as Anarchy...
...only natural, then, that when trouble occurred in Manchuria he should follow developments with great attention, and wonder whether he was not destined to play some part in an attempt to improve the condition of his ancestral Provinces. Emissaries of the Separatist movement called upon him at Tientsin and urged him to proceed to Manchuria. And at last he felt that if he was ever to go. he must do so forthwith, or he might find it impossible to leave...
...Chinese could say whether Japan would succeed in setting up a separatist puppet regime starting with the demilitarized zone, but all were talking about such a possibility as Chinese arrived in Nanking last week for the annual Conference of the Government Party or Kuomintang opening officially...