Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inevitably closer to his thoughts than his love of ancient Greek Philosophy is his vital and personal interest in the plight of his fatherland in 1942, and in the affairs of his countrymen both here and abroad. If the Greeks can survive the war and the ravages of the Axis, he has great faith that they have a future in store for them as glorious as their past...
...months ago this week the Mexican Senate, resentful over casual German sinkings of two Mexican tankers, voted to place its 19,500,000 countrymen at the side of 27 other United Nations-at war with the Axis. Recent were the sinkings but hoary, as modern politics go, was the steady flame of anti-Fascist fervor behind that decision. Since Dictator Benito Mussolini's conquest of Ethiopia, which she never recognized, on through comradeship with Spanish Loyalist resistance to Generalissimo Francisco Franco, Mexico had consistently raised her voice against the Fascist-Nazi powers...
...inhabitants must learn to speak Japanese, discontinue all past religious teaching, listen to no foreign broadcasts, print no secret matter, write no letters or ("without necessity") meet with their fellow countrymen...
Some of the other features on her busy schedule here are a dinner with Governor Saltonstall in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts at 7:30 o'clock this evening and a reception for her countrymen at the Netherlands Room of the Seaman's Club and visit to the Boston Navy Yard on Tuesday. While at Harvard, she may review the Naval Units...
...Helsinki last week a surprise guest crashed a birthday party. It was Adolf Hitler. He appeared at a celebration in honor of Finland's hard-bitten Field Marshal, Baron Carl Gustaf Mannerheim, now a well-preserved 75, who was probably less surprised than most of his countrymen...