Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...white paper, Peace and War, the State Department for the first time set forth the history of its dealings with the Imperial Government of Japan from the 1931 invasion of Manchuria down to the final hours that Cordell Hull spent with Ambassador Nomura and Emissary Kurusu while their countrymen made finally ready for Pearl Harbor...
Quite different were the military triumphs of Yugoslavia's General Draja Mihailovich, who capitalized on a conquered nation's unconquerable urge for freedom to fight when fighting seemed impossible. But before the year was out thousands of his countrymen, probably distrusting the Yugoslav Government...
...Smuts needs to extend the area where his troops can operate. So he last week called for parliamentary reform of South Africa's 1912 Defense Act. On the wave of patriotism following the recapture of Tobruk, Smuts cried that South Africans must now rescue 12,000 of their countrymen held prisoners in Italy. He was well aware of the attacks he would face from his two leading opposition parties: Dr. Daniel François Malan's antiwar, pro-Nazi Herenigde and Dr. J. F. J. van Rensburg's antiwar, pro-Nazi Ossewa Brandwag. As an indication that...
...with shouts of "Hi, Eleanor." In a short speech in the cafeteria-filled with the good smell of hot coffee and doughnuts-she made a motherly promise to the troops: warmer socks and faster mail. She left to see the rest of the country. As with her own countrymen, Britons did not know where her curiosity and energy would take...
...climb the high hill near the airdrome just up the road and watch the bombers and fighters go forth . . . can see his countrymen building with blood, sweat and toil the firm resolution that their sons shall not die under bombs, but shall have peace, because they will know how to preserve peace. ... It is stirring to see this change in attitude. It makes the dust all right, the flies all right, the heat all right...