Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...removing its passengers without taking the ship and them before a prize court. Messrs. Mason & Slidell were released from jail in Boston, placed on a British man-o'-war which carried them triumphantly abroad. Abuse was heaped high on Lincoln's head by many of his countrymen, but he patiently stuck to his private explanation of the affair: "One war at a time...
...wants to make sure that none of this money will be used in such a way as might cause injury or discomfiture to a Russian aviator flying over the working-class section of a Finnish town. ... I always try to explain this point of view without making my countrymen look like a bunch of sentimental whacks...
...have been collecting material for some time to undertake a speech giving expression to my views from a national standpoint on the subject of Industry and Agriculture. ... I have seen my fellow countrymen in every business occupation and profession. ... I have heard their story. ... I hope I am not too bold in saying that I have become acquainted, in part at least, with their intimate needs and problems...
...into a Czechoslovak Legion headed by 45-year-old General Sergej Ingr, named Commander in Chief. Meanwhile, one of the Committee's problems will be to dissuade Czechs under German rule from futile revolts. Onetime Minister to the Court of St. James's Jan Masaryk warned his countrymen over the BBC that the present was not a propitious time for anti-Nazi agitation...