Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nonetheless Dr. Anderson objects. He warns his countrymen that the British are slickers, that the U.S. has all the money and should take its time about seeing who should get small amounts of it and on what special terms in each case. Anderson's is the kind of parochial shrewdness that refuses medical aid to the victims of a flood in a neighboring valley until such time as the medical history of each victim and his ability to pay has been thoroughly canvassed. It was precisely such a policy following Versailles that let the German mark spurt like...
...Puppetry. The Jap has long fought his great Oriental neighbor with three arms - military, economic and political. Political pressure he has exerted through puppets. The shadow regime of Henry Pu Yi set Manchurian Chinese apart from their southern countrymen. Similarly the regime of suave Wang Ching-wei, Japan's No. 1 puppet since March 1940, was designed to wean Chinese from allegiance to Chiang Kaishek. For three years the Mikado's generals stupidly sought to give Traitor Wang "face" without a pretense of authority. Chinese derided the puppet premier as "the prisoner of Nanking...
...with these difficulties in mind, Dr. Benes proposed to visit the U.S. several months ago, would have come sooner if he had been encouraged to do so. He is a shrewd enough politician to know that a demonstration of White House friendship should improve his position among his dissident countrymen. Before he left London, his Foreign Ministry announced that he will stay strictly away from the Russo-Polish affair ("the issue is between Poland, the Soviet Union and the western democracies"). And Mr. Roosevelt had already chosen his emissary to Moscow: Joseph E. Davies...
...Mexico, the exhibition had about 246 square feet of Muralists Diego Maria Rivera and José Clemente Orozco alone. There were also many small drawings and lithographs by younger, lesser known Mexicans who revealed at least as much imagination and power of draftsmanship as their elder, more celebrated countrymen. With their elders, they shared modern Mexican art's preoccupation with violence and deformity, both inward and outward...
Tall Bishop Berggrav has grown even taller in the estimation of his enslaved countrymen since his arrest last year. To them he has become one of Norway's brightest symbols of freedom. Norwegians feel there is no comparison with Niemöller. The German, pastor, they insist, was sent to a concentration camp only because he did not like the Nazis barging into church affairs. Berggrav, on the other hand, took his stand not merely on spiritual grounds, but also because he detested their political theories and said...