Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Russians accused Finland of using chloropicrin (vomiting) gas, Premier Ryti sagely warned his countrymen to ready their gasmasks...
...British Cabinet was content, too, and the Liddell Hart plan or something like it firmly adopted, seemed proved last week when the Cabinet's most restless and rabidly anti-Hitler member, Winston Churchill, in reviewing the War's first month (see p. 55), called on his countrymen not only to rise above fear but also "above inconvenience and, perhaps most difficult of all, boredom...
...Briton who can explain muth to his countrymen about why this war started off so slowly (see p. 31), why the West ern Front was still so quiet last week, is a tall, thin officer of infantry in World War I: Captain Basil Henry Liddell Hart, 43, D. S. 0. V. C. Few weeks ago Captain Liddell Hart suffered a nervous break down, retired to the west of England, resigned his job as military expert for the august London Times...
...speech the workers sang Deutschland über Alles. To my astonishment I heard them sing the old, unchanged words: "Von der Etsch bis an den Belt!" How about that? The Etsch (called Adige by the Italians) is at present and has been for 20 years held by the countrymen of Mussolini, who a few months ago had completed his plans for driving out of the Adige territory (southern Tyrol) everybody who dared speak the German language. And the Belt is held by Denmark,* whose integrity has only a few days ago been formally guaranteed by the Führer. What...
Furious at Wenner-Gren last week were masses of his countrymen. Swedish newspapers flayed him for buying 50 tons of petrol, of which Sweden suffered a War shortage, and setting out on the Southern Cross for a pleasure cruise in the Atlantic...