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1935 Economist 19 Oct. 742/2 The new ‘splinter parties’, it will be observed—the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (farmer-labour), Mr. H. H. Stevens's ‘Reconstructionists’, and the Social Credit League—have hardly succeeded in making a scratch on the traditional surface of Canadian politics.

1948 Manch. Guardian Weekly 15 Jan. 5/2 He challenges the Republicans to dodge the stigma of reaction and encourages the Wallace ‘splinter groups’ to hold firm.

1948 Sun (Baltimore) 23 Feb. 8/3 While splinter minorities may have a voice in the legislature, they cannot extend that voice beyond their own minority base.

1950 Times 27 Feb. 5/3 The Cabinet is made up of an uneasy coalition of splinter parties.

1958 Spectator 17 Jan. 73/2 The formation of superior-minded splinter groups which have no wish to become part of the main body of the Church.

1968 Guardian 17 June 8/1 The ineffective splinter-group politics of the Fourth Republic.

1975 N.Y. Times 8 Nov. 26/2 The women's movement has increasingly allowed itself to be dominated..by radical splinter groups and issues which lack support among the majority of women.