Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eden government, standing pat, was in the position of having to justify its conduct to many of its own countrymen. Out on Cyprus, with E.O.K.A.'s amnesty offer withdrawn, bombs and guns went off all over. Terrorists attacked two police stations near Nicosia. A limpet mine, presumably placed by an E.O.K.A. frogman, holed the bottom of a small vessel anchored at the very spot where French and British supply ships were scheduled to unload later in the week...
...colons, learned in school that "our ancestors were the Gallic people." Eurasian men learned to drink cognac and vin rouge, the oftimes beautiful Eurasian women to wear Chanel perfume and Paris gowns. Vietnamese of mixed blood got the best jobs, were always considered a few steps above their fellow countrymen...
Jawaharlal Nehru, who finds himself out of patience with many of his countrymen's cherished practices, considers fasting "an incomprehensible thing." But he kept a discreet silence last week through his friend Desai's ordeal...
Rene Char is a Frenchman with a great, hulking frame (6 ft. 3 in.) and a jaw like a duck press. By almost unanimous consent of his countrymen, he is the greatest French poet of his time. Existentialist Author Albert Camus spoke for the French intelligentsia when he saluted Char as "the great poet for whom we have been waiting." But English-reading people must take a French poetic reputation, like the credentials of ambassadors, largely on trust. In this bilingual sampler of his work, U.S. readers will be able to decide for themselves that measure for measure...
...cooler thoughts and, for some, colder feet. British and French politicians reconsidered their shows of militancy and, though not excluding the possibility of force, recognized that without further explanations, the world would not be on their side. Sir Anthony Eden made a somber radio-television broadcast to his countrymen. Said Sir Anthony: "This is a matter of life and death to us all. It may be said: Why is it so terrible to nationalize a company? It was done here. That is perfectly true, but it was done ... to our own British industry. Colonel Nasser's action is entirely...