Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Being a Finlander who got licked in the war 1939-40 (even though the Russians probably said, as Hannibal: One more victory like this and I am a goner), I was particularly delighted to see that my countrymen licked the Russians in the Nordic winter sports [TIME, March i]; but please do not call the Finnish national anthem "Our Lord" in English. Maamme means "Our Country," and is a translation from Johan Ludvig Runeberg's poem Vart Land . . . But I am too delighted to kick about it, and "Our Lord" may be just as good as Maamme when...
...dispel the gloom and to stiffen his countrymen's resolution to achieve prosperity and independence, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer gathered together six Cabinet ministers and made a flying postconference trip to Berlin. To the 2,200,000 West German citizens of this beleaguered isle in the German Red sea, he promised generous help from Bonn to fight unemployment, expand West Berlin commerce with West Germany and meet the city's big budget deficit of 900 million Deutsche Marks ($214,285,000). To the 17 million East Germans, for whom the Berlin conference was a last forlorn hope...
Labor Split. Apparently the Foreign Ministers misjudged the amount of agreement they would get among their countrymen. In Britain, the obvious lesson of Berlin had indeed convinced Clement Attlee and his Labor Party leadership; but it made no impression whatever on a great number of his followers. Last week the issue split the Labor Party from top to bottom, came within two votes of overturning Attlee's leadership...
...hopes of a treaty had been highest. For a year, Austrian Chancellor Julius Raab had been dickering with the Russians behind the allies' back, offering to neutralize Austria in return for the evacuation of the Red army. Now Raab was humiliated. The fiasco at Berlin had moved his countrymen like few events in their national experience. People's Party newspapers appeared with black bands of mourning. The Socialists, who opposed Raab's playing footsie with the Communists, would not let him forget...
...appreciate? Mosley! Mosley! Mosley! Heil! Heil! Heil!" Thus, in an atmosphere boisterous with shouts, clicking heels and Nazi stiff-armed salutes, Britain's Sir Oswald Mosley returned last week to London from three years of self-imposed exile in Ireland for another try at peddling Naziism to his countrymen...