Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Author of these words is a passionately liberal Greek poet and scholar, 40-year-old Panayotis Kanellopoulos. He was in exile when he wrote them, and he knew the tragedy of Greece from his own bitter experience. As a volunteer army private, he had helped his countrymen hold back the Italian invaders. Then, amid chaos, confusion and treachery, he had stumbled back with them to Athens when the Germans moved in. Eventually he escaped, last March became War Minister and Vice Premier of the Greek Government in Exile. Four weeks ago he resigned. Last week the exiled government had moved...
...tears and sweat," he was as much the voice of Britain as was the roar of Spitfires over the chalk cliffs of Dover. Last fortnight, when he offered the world a British way toward peace with security (TIME, March 29), he voiced the yearnings not only of his own countrymen but of all the Allied peoples. Among them were many differences, some deep and wide; but common to them all was a desire to see at least the outlines of a better world...
...confess that I dream of the day when an English statesman shall arise with a heart too large for England, having courage, in the face of his countrymen, to assert of some suggestive policy-'This is good for your trade; this is necessary for your domination; but it will vex a people hard by; it will hurt a people farther off; it will profit nothing to the general humanity; therefore, away with it!-it is not for you or for me.' When a British minister dares to speak so, and when a British public applauds him speaking, then...
...life-all for nothing. One of the French warships returned all afire, and was run ashore making a horrible sight all that evening. Many were afraid there would be heavy air raids that night. One very kindly Frenchman came to me that evening and said, "Well, I hope your countrymen will permit us to sleep tonight." They did, and I began to hope that an armistice had been arranged, but the next morning things livened up again, and it appeared that a French warship tied up in the port was using her guns. A notice appeared in the paper saying...
Ahead of him, behind him, was his army. They were Englishmen, Irishmen and Scots who had fought and been beaten in France; the Australian 9th Division (Morshead's Marines), which had held Tobruk in an eight-month siege; the South African 1st Division, whose countrymen had surrendered Tobruk after one devastating day; New Zealanders who had fought and fled from Greece and Crete. It was a purposeful army behind an impassioned, man who was avenging Dunkirk (where he had led the 3rd Division) and all of Britain's North African defeats...