Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gone since that day, but Georges Bidault has hung on. In the ten years-and 19 cabinets-since, he has been out of office only 33 months, has been Premier twice (for 14 months in all), Vice Premier four times, Defense Minister twice, Foreign Minister eight times. To his countrymen, to the diplomats of other governments, even to those who know him best, there is no clear answer to how Georges Bidault has done it. He has no real copains (buddies), and only a few who consider themselves friends; Bidault has barely concealed his feeling that most of his colleagues...
...open, much of it half-concealed in bureaucratic pigeonholes. Says the Protestant National Christian Council of India: "The hostility being displayed these days cannot be spontaneous. There seems to be an organized attempt to disrupt the good relations which have existed so far between Christians and their [Hindu] countrymen." India's Committee of Catholic Bishops admits that the situation is causing "gravest anxiety," and the Apostolic Internuncio has taken up with the Indian government recent difficulties in obtaining visas for Catholic missionaries...
...hawk-nosed French colonel in his sandbagged command post came an unexpected message from Washington. "In common with millions of my countrymen," wrote President Eisenhower last week, "I salute the gallantry and stamina of the commander and soldiers who are defending Dienbienphu." Eisenhower also had a notion about a promotion (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) with which the colonel was in unabashed agreement...
...checked by enemies or disasters, tend to increase until finally checked by hunger. Malthus foresaw only catastrophe ahead. In fact he predicted that within 50 years Britain would be in disaster because of overpopulation. Malthus was wrong in his prediction. Around him in England, as he was writing, his countrymen were developing the machine culture that permitted a new cycle of human expansion. But many scientists are convinced that in his broader sense Malthus may still be proved right. Today's neo-Malthusians maintain that catastrophe has only been postponed, that overpopulation, starvation and misery will yet catch...
Albizu & Co., products of a bitter and seemingly hopeless past, are being isolated from their countrymen by progress. But partly because of their complete political failure they are, for the present, a serious terrorist menace, a "clear and present danger" against which the Puerto Rican authorities took the obvious action...