Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arrested 23 times on suspicion of being a Nazi agent, once in the Panama Canal Zone by his own countrymen, where it took some careful explaining to get himself out of the detention camp in which he was lodged for a short while...
Referring to the recent defeat of Stamese troops by the Chinese he stated that his countrymen had been forced to fight by their Japanese masters, and that they had probably lost the battle on purpose to hurt the Nipponese cause...
...sent from Chungking. Truckloads of khaki-clad Chinese Communists rode to battle singing and saluting with clenched fists-a salute which on one occasion was answered by a grinning policeman, whose main job for several years had been the rounding up of Communists. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek sent his countrymen in Singapore a message: "Victory of the Allies means our victory...
Norwegians, your fellow-countrymen are here, and with them your British allies.-We wish you a good Christmas and a happy New Year. We bring you this greeting from all free...
...seems to me that the student-body, now that our country is at war, might be willing to be of practical assistance to their countrymen who must go out and suffer for them...