Word: separatist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Separatist movement in India will go on; it may ebb or flow as the heavy hand of oppression comes down, but a movement of 300,000,000 people can never be extinguished." Mr. Hossain pointed to what has happened in Ireland. "There was a time when England might have quieted Ireland easily," he continued, "when a rational settlement would have been accepted. But a nation, irritated and embittered by centuries of misery and oppression, is not in a frame of mind to agree to a compromise, whether rational...
...real questions. "Under these conditions the question of the Ruhr occupation appears to them to be nothing more than an academic debate, and that is undoubtedly why this question was handled with the greatest calm yesterday." The following summary of Premier Poincare's failures was also enumerated: The separatist movement he fostered has been denounced; the franc has depreciated 86% since he came into power; the cost of living has gone up by leaps and bounds; the Allied Commission in control of Germany no longer exists except in name; the Ruhr manoeuvers have served no end; no reparations seem...
Their martyrdom has increased beyond endurance through the acts of the Separatist rabble, whose doings are a mockery to the right of the self-determination of peoples...
...first blow struck against it was dealt by Britain in a note to France, wherein was stated that His Britannic Majesty's Government could not countenance an attempt to dismember Germany and would not recognize the Rhineland Republic. Separatist activities in the British occupational zone around Cologne were repressed and several arrests were made...
...interesting summary of the careers of the Cologne officials of the Separatist "Government" was given by the Rhineland correspondent of the London Times: "Chief of Police-Joseph Heimann, assistant waiter, three times sentenced, including a sentence of five years' imprisonment for highway robbery. Public Security-Johann Nowack, shoemaker, four times convicted, and sentenced to ten years' penal servitude for manslaughter. Religion and Education-Alex Henderkott, keeper of disorderly houses, 22 convictions. Health-Heinrich Groll, manservant, twelve convictions. Traffic-Johann Paffenholz, messenger, 23 convictions. Art-Ludwig Schulz, trumpeter, 13 convictions. Guardian of the Poor-Ferdinand Graf, painter and decorator, six convictions...