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Article: Divided lands, phantom limbs: partition in the Indian subcontinent, Palestine, China, and Korea.
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- Journal of International Affairs
- Article date:
- March 22, 2004
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A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a nation's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again. It will listen to no reformer, to no philosopher, to no preacher, until the demand of the Nationalist is granted. It will attend to no business, however vital, except the business of unification and liberation.
George Bernard Shaw, Preface to John Bull's Other Island, 1904 (1)
In the immediate wake of Allied victory in the Second World War, the world lay in pieces. In Western but not Eastern Europe, battered nations and peoples that had been conquered by Axis powers regained ...