Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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SHANGHAI. Friday--Police aided by U.S. Marines and British in infantrymen today began a house-to-house search of the Angic-American area of the International Settlement to round up suspected Chinese Nationalist terrorists...
What presumably made Japan conscious of China's allies was the announcement last week from London that Britain was earmarking $15,000,000 for a loan to Nationalist China. This was the latest of a long series of loans which have bolstered China's economy. Britain had previously loaned $2,500,000 and $25,000,000. The U. S. put up $25,000,000 last December. Fortnight ago Finance Minister H. H. Rung announced that a Belgian firm had agreed to a $100,000,000 loan and that Russia may help soon with a "huge" one. Japan...
...sundry "crimes" arrived in Madrid soon after Franco's troops. An 8 p. m. curfew was clamped down; in many a Spanish home the knock of the secret police was momentarily expected and feared. Far from forgetting the Loyalist excesses of the last two-and-a-half years, Nationalist Spain was in a mood for wholesale reprisal and punishment. The new Government's authorities claimed that 250,000 of their sympathizers had been murdered by the Loyalists; they wanted "justice" in each case...
...moderation, stability. Most extremist parties lost seats while the moderate Liberals and Catholics gained. Socialists lost more than a quarter of their strength, and the fascist Rexists were almost completely wiped out. Even Eupen, Malmédy and Saint Vith, supposedly ardent pro-Nazi districts nearest Germany, voted 55% nationalist and anti-German...
...rich prize of Bohemia and Moravia, the Carpathian mountains did not fall without a struggle. Czech soldiers in Carpatho-Ukraine, having learned that Bohemia was a German province, bee-lined for the Rumanian border, where they surrendered their arms and were interned. But the Ukrainian Nationalist Guards of Carpatho-Ukraine, armed at the last minute by Premier Augustin Volosin, long a Ukrainian nationalist leader, put up a stiff resistance. There was a pitched battle to take Chust, the capital. It took Hungary a full four days to occupy the territory, in contrast to the mere eight or ten hours...