Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intervened in a debate on India to offer a solemn warning to Indian agitators. He charged them with obstructing the British Government's plan to help India in preparing for full dominion home-rule, with moving people by Western catchwords, with committing a great crime against their fellow-countrymen and civilization. He refused to believe that Britain would leave 300,000,000 people of India to their fate in the hands of irresponsible agitators. He was of the opinion that the gradual extension of constitutional power in that country was the only policy that Britain could follow. Such...
This has aroused southern and eastern European countries to protest against the "discrimination" of the Johnson bill. Citizens of foreign birth likewise protest against the exclusion of their countrymen. Politically this results in opposition to the bill from the representatives of urban districts such as New York, in which the foreign born population is largely concentrated. It also presents a problem to the Republican Party-the possibility of losing New York's electoral votes this year on account of the "foreign born vote." The Japanese Government has protested the provision of the new bill: "No alien ineligible to citizenship...
...Geddes said: "It seems to me that as I go back to my own country?I who came here as an Ambassador of the King of England, as a representative of the British Empire?I go as a sort of deputy assistant American Ambassador. I want to tell my countrymen what you are doing and what you are. . . . There is more ignorance of America in Europe than any American dreams. . . . And I do not believe that all your countrymen are fully informed of England...
...same afternoon in Symphony Hall Roland Hayes, the negro tenor, in his final concert of the season. Mr. Hayes had to be recognized in Europe as an artistic singer before his countrymen appreciated his work...
...Harry Lauder's reputation rests not alone on his position as an entertainer and a singer, for he is a lecturer of equal ability. In war-time, his work in raising funds for the relief of wounded soldiers and in maintaining the morale of his fellow countrymen brought him his knighthood and his greatest fame...