Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three weeks ago, when EOKA offered to suspend its two-year-old campaign of terrorism if Britain would free Makarios. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's Cabinet renewed a longstanding offer to end the Archbishop's exile provided that he publicly urge his countrymen to abandon violence. Makarios' reply was that of a man who clearly felt he held the stronger hand. Said he: "I appeal to EOKA to declare the cessation of all operations, provided that the British government show a spirit of understanding by simultaneously abolishing the present state of emergency [in Cyprus]." He also insisted...
When well-meaning but bumbling Premier Ali Sastroamidjojo set up his Nationalist-Moslem coalition government a year ago, after the country's first general elections, many of his countrymen (the majority of whom are illiterate) felt that they were at last within sight of the day when some semblance of law and order could be achieved. But the forces ranged against Ali-including his own incompetence-proved too great...
...like thousands of my countrymen, about to leave "this demiparadise" for Canada, but I feel this would not be necessary if England would climb down from its already tottering pedestal and accept a little more of the good old American "know-how." May I now speak on behalf of many Britons when I say "Thank God for America...
...this was somewhat surprising in a man whose political handbook ever since his student days in France has been a volume called The Technique of the Coup d'Etat. But the real shocker came when the Thai strongman informed his countrymen that they were free to organize political parties and start campaigning for the 1957 parliamentary elections...
Hardest campaigner of all was Pibulsonggram himself. An ardent admirer of U.S. political methods, the 59-year-old Premier zipped about the country in his green Thunderbird, handing out boxes of "Pibul matches" and replicas of his personal Buddha charm. Since Pibul's countrymen reckon that any man who has survived one kidnaping, two attempted assassinations by snooting and one by poisoning must have supernatural luck, the charm went over...