Word: irredentists
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...mineral treasure house of the southeast Congo, where the Bemba and the Tshokwe tribesmen flow over into parts of Northern Rhodesia and Angola, irredentist sentiment runs high among some black leaders. Moise Tshombe, boss of copper-rich Katanga province, talks of negotiating with the Northern Rhodesians and his Conakat Party has begun organizing branches in Northern Rhodesia itself...
Robin Hood's Head. Italy's pretext for stirring up trouble with Greece was the murder, some time in the last month, of an Albanian named Daout Hoggia. The Italian press claimed that Hoggia, an irredentist and a "sort of Robin Hood," had been killed by Greeks, who chopped off his head and displayed it as a warning in villages where Albanian minorities live. The Greeks said that Hoggia was a bandit, that he was killed by fellow Albanians who fled to Greece, that so far as they knew his head was still on his corpse. Slim...
...soon as Joseph Stalin was through talking with Finnish statesmen, he would send for King Carol's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Grigore Gafencu. Not for a moment has Hungary forgotten that the Treaties of Trianon and Versailles took Transylvania from her and gave it to Rumania. Most irredentist of all is Bulgaria, which has insisted year in & out that the southeastern province of Dobruja, which Rumania grabbed in the Second Balkan War of 1913, be returned...
Although the Italian colonial demands on France are not likely to precipitate an immediate war crisis i Europe, this sudden irredentist campaign for Tunisia and Corsica gains added significance in its relation to the Rome-Berlin axis. That Mussolini should pick a fight with Paris at the very moment the Reich has signed a Franco-German Agreement indicates that the interests of the two dictators are diverging. As junior partner in the axis, Italy must rely more on German support than Germany on Italian support. Thus, while Mussolini had no choice but to swallow the distasteful Austrian "Anschluss," Hitler...
...some 14,000 square miles of territory containing one million Hungarians plus less than a half-million inhabitants of other nationalities. The proposals verbally quoted by Dr. Rajniss rang true. They sounded like Masaryk, intelligent, magnanimous. Of course they did not envision yielding to the extreme Hungarian irredentist demand: "Czechoslovakia must give us back the whole 14,000 square miles...