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HUMORIST sends a clipping from a newspaper, in which a speaker at the National Council of Women pointed out that " a man could change his nationality at will, single woman had little difficulty in securing nationalisation.” Nationalisation is in everybody’s mouth nowadays, and a definition of it may be timely. Originally it meant the act of making or becoming a nation, but now it means the act of putting under the control of a nation. National means of or belonging to the whole nation, or characteristic of a nation. Nationalism is devotion to the whole nation rather than to a part of it, and is opposed to sectionalism. Nationalism also means a desire for national independence. In an obsolete sense it also means a national idiom, custom or trait. A nationalist is one w r ho advocates the enlargement of national control. To nationalise means to put under the control of the nation. Tc-day the Government has announced the nationalisation of the dairy industry. TOUCHSTONE.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20285, 20 April 1934, Page 6
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