Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days earlier had staged an impressive parade of their own, down the Champs-Elysées from the Arc de Triomphe to the Place de la Concorde through a double line of stone-silent onlookers. Chief of State Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain had ordered those of his countrymen whom he governs to observe France's onetime No. 1 holiday as a day "without labor" devoted to thinking of "our dead, our prisoners, our ruins, and our hopes...
Last week Comrade Stalin gave his countrymen the explanation he had owed them since that Sunday morning when Russians woke up to learn that Germany had invaded their country. It was his job to explain why he had promoted the 1939 Non-Aggression Pact with Germany, which enabled Adolf Hitler to pick off his enemies by ones and twos until he was free to tackle Russia. Taking to the microphone, with a big pitcher of tea at his elbow, Comrade Stalin saluted his fellow comrades in patriarchal tones...
Author Chéradame specializes in political rather than social atmospheres, takes less note of the ethical void which made possible so much 20th Century diplomacy. On the social sickness of his countrymen, and its results, however, he has some unhappy things to say. Ever since World War I ended Germany has systematically plotted France's downfall, through treason in high places, through the venality of the Paris press, through espionage facilitated by France's leaders. M. Chéradame says the French leaders would not listen to him when he urged a knockout blow at Italy when...
Indignation fills the heart of all of our countrymen...
Died. Stocky, boyish-looking Commander Günther Prien, 33, Germany's No. 1 naval hero; spurlos versenkt in the Battle of the Atlantic. A shrill-voiced banty, called "little hothead" by his friends, he won the awed admiration of enemy sea fighters as well as his own countrymen by a daring and ingenuity that sank a claimed 235,941 tons of shipping. After his submarine torpedoed H.M.S. Royal Oak inside the heavily mined harbor at Scapa Flow in October 1939, the British Admiralty paid tribute to his "remarkable skill and daring...