In February, 1939, and before the absorption of Bohemia and Moravia, for instance, he received Dietrich's order to bring to the attention of the press Slovakia's efforts for independence, and the anti-Germanic policies and politics of the existing Prague Government, This order to Dietrich originated in the Foreign Office.
With the coming of the First World War, Czech and Slovak efforts for autonomy became efforts for independence from Austro-Hungarian rule.
"She's meaningful in that she made bold efforts for independence while still a student, and female," says Ko ah-ra, a guide at the small museum.
Perhaps unsurprisingly this comes just days before the Catalan day of independence, when a human chain is expected to cross the Catalonia region, in the latest effort to push for independence from Madrid.
I would only take exception with her comment that "despite the renewed efforts of Basque extremists for independence, we almost did not feel their presence, other than in the papers we read and in the conversations we had with friends".
And so it was for us — despite the renewed efforts of Basque extremists for independence, we almost did not feel their presence, other than in the papers we read and in the conversations we had with friends.
They became prominent as Albanian "enlighteners" in the 19th century, publishing Albanian-language literary and mystical works in defiance of the Ottoman rulers' "Turkish-only" policy, and cooperating with Albanian Catholics and Albanian Orthodox Christians in the national effort for cultural advancement and independence.
The logic was perverse; much of that debt had been run up by the colonial authorities in their effort to crush the Cuban struggle for independence.
In the late 1950's he expressed his fierce opposition to French efforts to smother Algeria's fight for independence in an essay called "The Algerian War".
Charles Bowsher, the former comptroller general and head of the General Accounting Office, said Mr. Herdman, in private practice, joined other accounting executives to fight every major effort for significant inquiries into auditor independence.
