Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Washington last week, ailing, exiled Philippine President Manuel Quezon sent his countrymen advice not to worry if they had to yield their property to the Japs. Quezon proclaimed Filipino adherence to a United Nations declaration pledging the return of all looted property in Axis-conquered countries to the rightful owners...
...have carried out the decree. But Tresca had powerful foes also in Communist ranks and among the "ex-Fascists" in this country, whose influence he bitterly fought. He was a man without a party, yet he spoke thoughts that are going through the minds of millions of his countrymen, here and in the homeland, who stand against oppression. But the disturbing thing was that Tresca's murder might have cast upon the New World the shadow of Old World political murder...
...unbinding us from any narrowing systems of thought or limiting habits of mind and thus freeing us each and all to mold our ideas and temper our feelings so that we may unify ourselves with all elements of strength in our country. Only through that unity among all our countrymen may there develop the highest energy of all parts of our national life for the great effort that our country now must make...
...Veronika and millions of her fellow countrymen knew why the Red Armies were relatively well supplied and were winning victories. Veronika knew that: >Much of Soviet industry had been evacuated to the Urals and Siberia, where it was producing more tons of products than all Soviet pre-war industry. >In Magnitogorsk a giant new blast furnace had been blown in, a strange, but fitting, Christmas present from the Russian people to themselves. >Baku oil production was 40% above...
...Brazil" Winchell radi-orated: "For 20 years the Nazi press has been telling our respective countries that we are separated by a language. Your warm welcome to my countrymen tells the Nazi press again, I hope, that our countries are united in ideals. . . . To survive this dark hour, civilization has had to mark carefully her enemies. This means that for bright centuries to come she will also remember her friends . . . and conspicuous in civilization's friends is Brazil. . . . The fury of battle is the test of a soldier; the attack from within is the test of a Republic. Hitler...