Word: countrymen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...high spirits Delhi Siamese broadcasters beamed this question to their countrymen: What would happen if you happened to be in the privy when Pitul's morning broadcast began? Several days later Radio Bangkok solemnly took up the challenge. In a nationwide broadcast, Siamese were told that in such an emergency they might simply sit up straight...
Knut Hamsun, 83, No. 1 Norwegian novelist and No. 1 intellectual pro-Nazi, had always bruised easily. So when Norwegians heard that he had suffered a stroke, some thought they knew the reason. For years his countrymen had loved his books (Hunger, Growth of the Soil, The Road Leads On). But now those books, which had once nudged bibles on Norwegian bookshelves, were boycotted; dog-eared copies were even trickling back to Hamsun at Grimstad. Last week, though Hamsun had since recovered from his stroke, the trickle of books swelled to a river. Though the local post office hired extra...
When Hamsun, first showed sympathy with the Nazis in 1933, Norwegians cared little. But it was different when the Nazis invaded Norway and Hamsun told his countrymen: "Norwegians! Throw away your rifles and return home. The Germans are fighting for us and now are crushing England's tyranny over us and all neutrals." In Washington the Norwegian Minister, Wilhelm Munthe de Morgenstierne, doubted that Hamsun had said this. If he had, said Minister de Morgenstierne, "I am inclined to credit it to a very old man's tiredness and anguish...
Because he was no disciple of decency for conformity's sake alone, Prince George Edward Alexander Edmund, Duke of Kent, Earl of St. Andrews and Baron Downpatrick, and youngest (39) of the four living sons of King George V and Queen Mary, got on with his countrymen. They accepted him as royalty; they relished him as a rake; when in World War II he forsook private gaiety for public chores, they liked...
...Honest Tony" Eden and earnest Eduard Benes were the pallbearers, and there were two requiems: one by Eden in the House of Commons, one by Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk via radio to his countrymen. Thus was decent burial finally provided for a smelly old corpse, the Munich Agreement...