Word: secessionists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such extravagant speeches as that made by Prime Minister Hertzog, last week, are to be taken with about as much seriousness as the exaggerated platform promises of U. S. statesmen. Naturally General Hertzog's platform must satisfy his large Dutch secessionist following; and, like many another sly old dog, he relies more on his bark than on his bite...
Even so, however, General Hertzog is by far the most secessionist of all the Dominion Prime Ministers; and at the last Dominion Conference (TIME, Nov. 1 to Dec. 6, 1926) it was his bite which finally nipped the British Commonwealth into formal recognition that: 1) The Dominions are nations, with rights to accredit diplomats to non-British countries; 2) Great Britain is on a plane of "equality under the Crown" with the Dominions; 3) Great Britain, while continuing to administer the colonies and the foreign policy of the Empire must now do so in concert with the Dominions...
...Secessionist Hertzog. This diplomatic opening at once roused the ire of General Hertzog, fiery, secessionist Premier of the Union of South Africa. Said he: "I wish to say a few words as to South Africa's attitude in regard to the Empire or British Commonwealth of Nations.‡ It has our hearty support and will ever have our hearty support, irrespective of parties and races, as long as it is and shows the character of a commonwealth of free and independent nations, each free and striving to attain what is best for itself, yet in such a manner...
While Premier Mussolini was winning votes in the Chamber of Deputies, to give him temporary power summarily to eject his enemies from government employment, the secessionist Deputies (Socialists who began a boycott of the Chamber of Deputies following the murder, last year, of Socialist Deputy Giacomo Matteotti) were discussing their future policy on the Aventine hill to the south...
...attitude of the Berlin Government was given by a German politician : " If we hate a Frenchman because of the torture we have been forced to endure, we despise a Separatist ten times more. However, whenever we run into a secessionist we scent a Frenchman...