Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Major General William F. Dean . . . An inspiration to all his countrymen . . . MRS. LLOYD BALDRIDGE San Diego, Calif...
Last week, citing these and other grim statistics as determined by the government's 1951 census, India's Census Commissioner and a top civil servant, R. A. Gopalaswami, urged his countrymen to do something about "improvident maternity." As things are now going, he estimates that India's population will soar to 520 million by 1981. "Every married couple can have a maximum of three children without creating a national problem," said Gopalaswami, "but we should realize that it is improvident on our part to permit ourselves to increase in numbers indefinitely without taking thought...
...56th birthday this week, Socialist Aneurin Bevan paid respects to his countrymen. The British people, said he in a political speech at Coventry, are "among the most ignorant in the world...
...pass along his reasons why England mistrusts U.S. foreign policy . . . That a man of Mr. Driberg's views should have been elected to hold office in Great Britain-that, what is more, his statement must be accepted as representative of the views of the large body of his countrymen, tells us more than that the once mighty British character is now effete, senile, and immoral; it tells us that at our peril we rely upon England as a partner in the fight to preserve civilization...
...attack on U.S. foreign policy by Britain's Tom Driberg, Bevanite Socialist member of Parliament (TIME, Oct. 12), shocked some of Driberg's fellow countrymen as much as it did the Americans for whom it was intended. Malcolm Muggeridge is a onetime leftist turned conservative, a former British newspaper correspondent in Moscow (1932-33) and Washington (1946-48), and currently the highly articulate editor of Punch. Muggeridge's answer to Driberg...