Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning the Slovak capital, Bratislava, awoke to find CzechoSlovak gendarmes patrolling the city. The Hlinka Guards were disarmed and interned. From Prague President Dr. Emil Hacha fired Slovakia's Cabinet. Its Premier, Monsignor Dr. Joseph Tiso, was shut up in a Jesuit monastery. Eventually Dr. Karol Sidor, a nationalist and Hlinka Guardsman but not a separatist, was made Premier. Apparently the plot was crushed. But just then ousted Premier Tiso smuggled a telegram out of the monastery...
...Only he is in contact with the current of scientific development which flows in the Occident. Only he is capable of building a backbone for national resistance-a backbone designed to meet modern specifications. And only he is able to govern, to fill the administrative offices of the Nationalist Government...
Neither did anyone else, but the anti-Jewish handbills scattered by the mob were obviously not prepared by Mexicans. They were written in Castilian Spanish style, which few Mexicans use. They were signed by Ruben Moreno Padres, president of the Nationalist Vanguard, who boasted few months ago that his anti-Semitic activities had the support and the sympathy of the German Legation in Mexico City...
Died. William Butler Yeats, 73, great Irish poet; of heart disease; in Roquebrune, France. A symbolist poet known to few in his youth, a leader of the Irish literary renaissance and a founder of the Abbey Theatre in his early maturity, an Irish nationalist in his middle years, Yeats also became a Nobel prizewinner (1923), a Free State Senator, and was widely accepted, in his old age, as a world figure whose poetry and prose could be measured with the greatest produced in his time. His art meanwhile changed from the youthful rhythms of The Lake Isle of Innisfree, which...
...before the bombings the citizens of Eire were startled to find their principal streets plastered with a proclamation issued by the illegal, fanatically nationalist Irish Republican Army. The proclamation also appeared in Northern Ireland, the six counties still under British rule. In England, while police officials chased around after the bombers, copies of the proclamation were posted in London, Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham. It called for militant action against Britain to force the long-sought union of all Ireland under one Republic, proclaimed...