Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like most of his countrymen, Generalissimo Francisco Franco, Caudillo of Spain, is fond of good food. Unlike most of them, he has been able to indulge the taste consistently for many years and possesses respectable ebonpoint to prove it. Yet if ever a man had cause to pick nervously at his victuals, that man is Francisco Franco. This week his well-padded posterior is planted on one of the hottest governmental hot seats in all the world. And the main question facing him is not whether he can ease the situation, but whether he can stay there...
...cheap egocentric, a quisling of Hitler") and Fascismo ("an artificial and corrupt house of cards which will fall some day in a few hours"). A patient, humane man, with historical perspective, he believed that his nation had strayed into its most tragic hour, but that in good time the countrymen of Dante and Galileo, Michelangelo and Mazzini, Verdi and Ferrero, would come out all right. "They are grand, they are grand!" he said as the little people of Italy turned from the Blackshirts and their alliance with the Germans...
During the next seven months he labored to arouse his indolent countrymen. It was not hard to do: 2,503 years of bloody history had engendered in them a hatred for foreigners, a natural bent for vendettas and guerrilla fighting in the blood-red rocks, the snow-capped peaks. D'Istria armed the Corsicans with 10,000 submachine guns (dropped by parachute, hauled in by submarine). He fired them with the memory and the zeal of the greatest Corsican of them all-Napoleon Bonaparte...
Marshal Badoglio and his King escaped the Nazi net. At week's end, from refuge somewhere in the countryside, the Marshal and the King belatedly called upon their countrymen to resist the Germans...
With these words, Kyoku Okuda, of the technical section of the Japanese Army Air Forces, writing recently in a popular Japanese magazine, warned his countrymen to prepare for a perilous future. Said Mr. Okuda: "If even a single Japanese gives in to the hardships and grows weary of the war, we will be defeated...