Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thailand's soft-voiced but strong-willed Premier Pibulsonggram came home from a state tour of Europe and the U.S. a year and a half ago full of the wonders of democracy. Expansively he urged his countrymen to erect themselves a Hyde Park for uninhibited soapbox oratory, offered them the kite-flying ground next to the royal palace. Going his new friend Dwight Eisenhower one better, Pibul instituted weekly press conferences, forced his hapless ministers to appear and answer rude reportorial questions about their carefree handling of public funds...
That formidable California bulldozer, Senate Minority Leader William Fife Knowland, is a man who sometimes will not see the trees for the forest. When he has an idea, he thrusts straight ahead to the conclusion-and often manages to carry a lot of his countrymen along with him. Last week Bill Knowland, a United Nations delegate himself, pushed through to a conclusion about the Middle East and the entire U.N. that scattered a whole grove of carefully planted Administration trees...
...countrymen," Ike began, "and the friends of my countrymen wherever they may be ... We seek peace. And now as in no other age, we seek it because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself. Yet this peace we seek cannot be born of fear alone. There must be justice, sensed and shared by all peoples. There must be law, steadily invoked and respected by all nations, for without law the world promises only such meager justice as the pity of the strong upon the weak...
Resolutely, Britain's Harold Macmillan began to turn his countrymen's gaze away from the last humiliating weeks. In his first broadcast as Prime Minister last week, Macmillan passed rapidly over the Suez war ("I believe history will justify what we did"), and briskly informed those who saw the imminent end of the American alliance: "We do not intend to part from the Americans and we do not intend to be satellites...
...every car owner of my acquaintance has reeked of petrol. "Oh, it's only a can in case of emergency; might have to visit the hospital, you know." In the interests of whatever is left of Anglo-American solidarity, I think you should warn any of your countrymen who are proposing to come over here to be very careful where they toss their cigar butts...