Word: separatists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Princess Marie José, sole daughter of Their Majesties, performed upon the cello, last week, before a most select and royal audience. Next day loyal Brabant news organs "learned" that H. R. H.'s performance was "in the highest degree creditable." But scurrilous sheets of the separatist Flemish persuasion "wondered" if H. R. H. does not run through sonatas "rather too often, to the accompaniment of M. Eugène Ysaye, the fiddler...
...Finance Minister in the two Cabinets preceding his own, Dr. Stresemann's (TlME Oct. 15. 1923) and Dr. Marx's (TlME Dec. 10, 1923), his regime covered the inception of the Dawes Plan (TlME, June 16,1924), the suppression of the Rhineland Separatist revolt (TIME, Oct. 29, 1923), the squelching of Ludendorff's "Beer Hall Revolt" (TlME, Nov.19, 1923) and h i s acquittal of a charge of treason (TlME, April 7, 1924), the death of Hugo Stinnes which toppled his industrial Tsardom (TlME, April 21, 1924), the election of the present Reichstag - the Communists being repudiated...
...London Times erupted into exclamations for once: "No more invasions of Belgium! No more devastation of French territory! No new occupation of the Ruhr! No new attempts to foster separatist movements in the Rhineland! It seems almost incredible we should have escaped from that series of nightmares, yet this solemn pledge intends nothing less. The spectre that held the peoples of France, Belgium and Germany in perpetual fear has been exorcised, at any rate for a period in which the will of the present generation may operate...
...former Methodist churches joined the new Church. All but 7 of the 181 Congregational Churches surrendered their old autonomy. But the Presbyterians split. Of some 4,600 Presbyterian congregations, nearly 900 have refused to unite, have formed a separatist organization...
Three days after the "Pirmasens affair" the green-white-red flag of the Separatists was hauled down by order of the Allies amid the indescribable joy and relief of the people, and the government of the area was placed in the hands of a Palatinate Kreistag Commitee. Great Britain, who, through ex-Foreign Minister Lord Curzon, was the first Nation to protest energetically against the Separatist activities, and who caused an Interallied Special Com-mission to be formed to study the Separatist question, was hailed by the Palatinate populace as their saviour...