Word: irredentists
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...independence to Malaysia by the British, Malay aristocrats from the Thai south appealed to the U. N. to allow them to join the Federation of Malaysia, but the new Malaysian government, faced with a "confrontation" from Indonesia and a fragile electoral division between the Chinese and Malays, disowned the irredentist movement...
...most celebrated names in Israeli history. He is Major General Ezer Weizman, 45, the former commander of the Israeli air force and the nephew of the late Chaim Weizmann, Israel's first President (Ezer dropped the second "n" as a gesture of independence). A member of the irredentist Gahal party, whose representation in the Cabinet increased from two to six, Weizman shed his uniform only last week to become Transportation Minister...
Unacceptable & Intolerable. Not content with the uproar he caused in July by visiting French Canada and calling for a free Quebec, the general went even further in a boldly irredentist bid. Canada, he lectured Ottawa, putting on his glasses for the first time in a press conference, must rewrite its constitution, turning Quebec loose to elevate itself "to the rank of a sovereign state." Then Quebec and France must organize for the "solidarity of the French Community on both sides of the Atlantic." How else, he asked, could the French of Canada "cope with the encroachment...
...infinitely more protracted. After years of futile, ruinous enmity toward Israel, the Arabs conceivably might decide that their best hope for the future lies in neighborly relations between the heirs of Isaac and Ishmael. More probably, envenomed by their latest defeat, they could embark on a new orgy of irredentist fervor, thereby proving once more, as Radio Algiers put it last week, that "the only language between Israel and the Arabs is the language of iron and fire...
...victors of World War II. In the process, nearly 12 million Germans were uprooted and sent streaming westward in an apocalyptic migration that took 2,000,000 lives. Some 8,000,000 "expellees" remain in West Germany today, and though many have lost much of their fierce irredentist zeal, their presence is a constant reminder to the German government of the need to regain the lost territories and thus reaffirm the hereditary German Heimatsrecht...