Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...name of our countrymen, we want to express our deep appreciation for letting the American people and the liberty-loving world know (TIME, May 22) the life of shame that Hondurians are suffering under the tyranny of Dictator Tiburcio Carias Andino...
...when Quezon's term as President expired, Osmeña should have succeeded him, since a Philippine election was obviously impossible. Instead he agreed with the U.S. Administration's desire to leave the ailing Quezon in office as a symbol of freedom for his conquered countrymen. Now, as President, he was content to walk again obscured by the pomp of Manuel Quezon's passing...
...Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai, temporary deputy Premier and Minister of the Navy. Primarily a Big Navy man, Yonai is a popular mediocrity, awesomely known to his diminutive countrymen as "The White Elephant." As Japanese go, he is a great strapping fellow-5 ft. 7 in. in his sandals...
...long forbidden Communist zone, were allowed to report warmly on the Communist village setup, land reforms, guerrilla tactics against the Japs. In Nationalist China, hitherto quiescent democratic groups issued a manifesto: "The formation of a democratic system should not be postponed any longer. We warn our fellow countrymen that if democracy is not realized in wartime, what we gain after the war will not be democracy but the disruption and annihilation of the nation, with sufferings a hundred times more painful than...
...under a Tricolor mounted with the Gaullist Cross of Lorraine, flanked by the Union Jack and the Stars & Stripes, Charles de Gaulle said; "We will fight by the side of our Allies. . . . Our victory will be a victory of a free people. . . ." Then he sang La Marseillaise with his countrymen...