Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...During these last few days, when our beloved and only child married the girl he loves [Paul Robeson Jr., who went to school in Russia, married a white girl], I have taken the crucial beating at the hands of my fellow countrymen. Some of them collected in the street to boo my children, whom they did not even know. The natural thing for people to do when they see a newly married pair is to smile indulgently, vaguely wish them well. These people were wishing my children evil...
Back in Batavia, however, another influential Indonesian leader, Sultan Hamid II of Pontianak in Borneo, was not so sure of his countrymen's ability to check the Communist tide in Asia. "Communism," he said, "is the greatest danger for us here." The Sultan urged U.S. aid to help the U.S.I, to its feet; he indicated that for such aid America might well be permitted to have troops and bases in Indonesia...
Anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer, taking a hard look at his stricken countrymen, said: "His success . . . is almost entirely based on his personal appeal. To the English he is exotic, and since he is a foreigner who won't be around tomorrow, they let themselves be swept along by his personality. His appeal is emotional, and his openness and lack of shame are most welcome. He makes love to his audience...
Twins on the Right. Many of Erato's Greek countrymen would answer that question with a violent yes; Mamma Erato's son is Nicholas ("Nico") Zach-ariades, leader of the Communist guerrillas who harass Greece from the north. But the butcher is gentler. "There are no real Communists in Greece," he says, "only misery...
...Tight Spitter. Brazil's President lacks the easygoing gaiety of most of his countrymen. His short figure and outsize head have made sobersided Eurico Caspar Dutra a target for Rio cartoonists, who love to picture him as a sleepy owl. But even his harshest critics concede him a rocklike integrity, boundless courage, and an immobile sort of dignity...