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19 septembre 2019
- doi: 10.4000/books.pus.10280
- isbn: 9782868205513
- eisbn: 9791034404803
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Christian Auer, « 112. Anti-Catholicism, 1935 », Presses universitaires de Strasbourg, ID : 10.4000/books.pus.10280
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The Protestant Action Society, founded by Edinburgh Councillor John Cormack in 1933, was an anti-Catholic organization that demanded the curtailment of Irish Catholic immigration and the expulsion of all Catholic orders. After his victory at the local election of North Leith in 1934, Cormack declared that “wherever in the political life of our country, municipal or national, the Papist beast shows its head we must crush it or, at least, keep it in subjection.” Some of the members of the Prote...