Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many leaders, has always pursued with determination the policy that truth can come only from the minds of men who are free. He comes to us as a man who dared to assume the leadership of his country at a moment of dire peril and yet to tell his countrymen that all he had to offer them was, "blood, and sweat and tears.": as one whose unfailing courage and optimism has never wavered, because be knows the worth of that freedom for which he is fighting; and as one who has sworn eternal hostility to every form of tyranny over...
Very popular among his countrymen before the war, this Dane has of late become closely associated with Henrick de Kauffmann, Danish Minister who may be one of the men who form the nucleus of the Post-war Northern European country's government...
...dogs, while the man-in-the-saddle sought to build up his country's war contributions and at the same time justify his actions to the trades unions who had put him up. "Honest John" Curtin was a fair dinkum rider; last week 4,500,000 of his countrymen went to the polls for a general election (TIME, Aug. 23), voted Labor twelve of the Opposition's seats. Probable new House of Representatives lineup: Labor 48, Opposition 24, Independent...
...government leaders; 2) military executives; 3) ministers; 4) sovereigns-not on the common people of aggressor nations. In a resolution referred to a committee of the Inter-American Bar Association for further study, he urged that war criminals be tried by civilian-military courts of their fellow countrymen...
...Generalissimo, as for all his countrymen, it was an hour of deep sorrow. Tzu-ch'ao* was both a scholar and an artist. To his people he personified the Chinese proverb: "Great Wisdom Looks Like Stupidity." He was born in a middle-class family at Foochow in 1862. American missionaries were his first teachers. Later, at a private college, Lin Sen acquired an old-fashioned Chinese education. Later still he went to Hawaii, then to the U.S. He was living in a single barren room in San Francisco when he joined the Kuomintang, then a secret society. When...