Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stage for the climax to a historic career. Regarded by Admiral Halsey and many another fighting man as the ablest general of World War II, General of the Army MacArthur will have a field of immense scope for his strategic and tactical brilliance. And millions of his fellow-countrymen who know little of the art of war would be well pleased to see him take, as symbol of full surrender, the Mikado's sword...
...hundred million countrymen: The enemy now stands at our front gate. It is indeed the gravest moment in the history of our nation. . . . We must either win . . . or we shall all die. . . . The time is here for the . . . people of Japan to man their posts . . . and make secure the divine country of his Imperial Majesty, the Emperor...
Then one of the Army's prime morale boosters, Major General Chuon Sakurai, rallied his countrymen. We must follow the example of Frederick the Great, he radiorated. "Regardless of victory or de feat," the Prussian king "always put his hand on his chest. . . . Without uselessly indulging in worry over the prevailing war situation, we also should calmly place our hand upon our chest and think . . . that our efforts are not yet sufficient...
Died. Maximino Avila Camacho, 52, Mexican Secretary of Communications and strident, notorious elder brother of Mexico's pious President; of a heart attack; in Puebla, Mexico. The death of the aggressively ambitious onetime cowhand, bullfighter and revolutionary left few sincere mourners among his countrymen...
...exhausted country, was interested for the moment chiefly in creating his own Good Neighborhood on pretty much his own terms. Franklin Roosevelt represented a nation which did not know what kind of a Europe it wanted; he himself had not blueprinted the future of Europe for his countrymen...