Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heaviest submarine in the world was ready to go back into action. Capitalne de Corvette Louis Blaison told his countrymen by short-wave radio last week that his vessel would soon again "seek out the enemy...
...France. In his tired, halting voice he begged: "Frenchmen, your duty is clear -put an end to this butchery. Do not let more evil be done in France." Frenchmen who illegally tuned in the BBC broadcast from London heard an other radio appeal. General Charles de Gaulle asked his countrymen not to kill Germans "in the present circumstances. ..." Instead he asked all Frenchmen to join a general strike, to spend five minutes this Friday in silence and "scornful meditation...
They need not have explained. His Royal Scandinavian Highness understood very well. First, he knew, there was race. Gustaf Adolf knew perfectly the feeling of the blond north countrymen for the Slavs: his great namesake, Gustavus Adolphus, had fought the Muscovites at Great Novgorod, and Charles XII nearly crushed the Russian Peter called Great. The hatred was old in the blood...
This fanfareless meeting did not mean that the Administration was chilly to Lord Halifax. It did mean that celebrity-loving citizens of the U.S. have found his Lordship a chill, unbending, colorless personality. The qualities which appeal most to his own countrymen-diffidence, reserve, intellectual honesty-make no impression on the U.S. masses...
...tragic, thought the General, that the Administration did not agree with this view. But he was sure that most of his fellow countrymen, certainly most realistic hardheaded businessmen in isolationist Chicago, did agree. The General thought something ought to be done about...