Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fair wind was already blowing from "other directions." At Odessa on the Black Sea, ships took on the first carloads of 500,000 tons of grain the Russians had promised to France. Communist Leader Maurice Thorez was busy telling his countrymen about Russia's beneficence. A Courrier de Paris cartoon showed Blum as a gloomy war bride bound for the U.S., surrounded by sympathetic French girls saying: "Poor thing, her G.I. doesn't want her any more." Russia was not above trying to win Marianne on the rebound...
...Pauley the President wrote a long letter: "With full confidence in you, I shall reluctantly withdraw your nomination [as Under Secretary of the Navy]. . . . You stand before your countrymen after vicious and unwarranted attacks with integrity unscathed, with ability unquestioned, with honor unsullied...
...predicted World War II: "I saw it all coming and cried aloud to my own fellow countrymen and to the world. . . . There never was a war in history easier to prevent by timely action. . . . But no one would listen...
...eared copy of the one-page North Korea Communist mouthpiece Chawng Lo (Right Way) turned up in the U.S. zone last week. From it, South Koreans, eager for news of their northern countrymen, learned of a two-day meeting in P'yongyang to plan a provisional government for the Soviet-occupied area. The self-government murmurs had strong overtones of the Internationale...
...They expressed pleasant surprise at the fairness of the U.S. occupiers, supported (at least publicly) Allied prosecution of war criminals and gave lip service to democratic slogans. However, members of the Far Eastern Commission, returning to Washington last week, reported that Japanese liberals were still afraid of their militaristic countrymen; the liberals estimated that it would require 20 or 30 years of Allied occupation to bring real democracy to Japan...