Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British public no longer laughs at this last line of defense. In the opinion of many an expert, the Home Guard has made Britain almost invulnerable to attack. On the northern moors countrymen patrol day & night. Golf courses in Kent and Surrey are littered with Home Guard barricades to prevent plane landings. At all strategic crossroads Home Guardsmen man pillboxes, road blocks or well-placed tank traps. Behind every hedgerow, at every cottage sill, at every parish well stands a little body of men who believe not only in England but in themselves...
Blimps or Reds? Godfather of this British phenomenon was a leftist-Tom Wintringham, who led the British Battalion of the International Brigade in Spain. Wintringham wanted to teach his countrymen, while there was yet time, the new war technique of infiltration and the organization of a people's army, which he had learned in Spain. Not until May 14, 1940 did he get any official backing. That day the earnest, professorial voice of the then War Secretary, Anthony Eden, appealed over the BBC for unpaid volunteers to prepare for action in the event of invasion. The Government expected...
More than most professional military and naval men, Conrad Helfrich embodied for his countrymen this Dutch sense of home, of a rooted life in his own land. The quality distinguished him and his colonial fellows from the imperial transients of other "colonies." It fired them to a fierce preparation, a planned thoroughness of resistance which the British in Burma and Malaya and dozing Americans in Honolulu and Manila patently lacked when the Japs first came. This was the quality, the mighty intangible, which Conrad Helfrich, the Indies' Lieut. Governor Hubertus van Mook and other Batavia spokesmen meant when they...
...victim's remnants together reported he was no Moslem or Jew. Perhaps the foxy Ambassador had himself planned the appearance of an attempt on his life which had turned out badly for the man blown to smithereens. Or perhaps the Ambassador was again being hunted by his own countrymen...
...feeling about Douglas MacArthur into words: "We are now engaged in fighting a modern war against the greatest exponents of modern warfare. . . . To bring about effective cooperation, one man should direct the military services. . . . We have the man-the man who . . . almost alone has given his fellow countrymen confidence and hope . . . General Douglas MacArthur...