Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into this scene of amity rushed a couple of Falangist hotheads. Just back from volunteer service with the Spanish Blue Division on the Russian Front, they ripped the posters from the walls, denounced their countrymen as traitors. Spanish guards handcuffed the two intruders, lugged them to the calabozo...
Noel Coward, visiting Manhattan on his way to entertain South African military hospitals, was asked about a rumor of his engagement to Marina, Britain's beauteous, widowed Duchess of Kent (who was down with flu last week, like many of her countrymen-see p. 44). In clipped syllables he clipped the rumor: "Utterly idiotic...
...case love would seek atonement and forgiveness for our enemies, both within and without the land. If peace cannot lead to atonement and forgiveness, the world will be frigid with hate and a trustworthy relationship between nations will be an impossibility. If we cannot forgive those of our own countrymen . . . even though they repent and are paying their penalties, then we will enter the future with an open sore in the national life...
Carol of Rumania, now of Mexico, called on his countrymen to revolt and join the United Nations, only two weeks after he had hired Pressagent Russell Birdwell to build him up as a democrat. Birdwell released the call to the news papers, appended a note announcing that he had dutifully registered with the Department of Justice as Carol's agent, added: "The fact should not be construed as approval of the United States Government of the contents of this release...
...frantic days just before Munich when the Czechs were mobilizing and France was calling up her reserves-crossed five miles of mined border into Holland en route to Britain - there heard Chamberlain defend before the House of Commons his tragic effort "to keep peace in our time" while his countrymen were feverishly digging air raid shelters and experimenting with barrage balloons. That same year she visited Canada to meet the Dominion's key officials-and in 1940 she traveled to Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Lima and Quito getting acquainted with many important policymakers south...