Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...home at Rhöndorf. "I became a very good gardener," he says. Twice the Gestapo arrested him, but he was treated as an Ehrenschutzhäftling (honorary prisoner) and released unharmed. But Adenauer heard and saw enough of Gestapo brutality to feel bitterly ashamed of his countrymen...
...Every one of us, every day, meets countrymen, often in the highest places of the national hierarchy, who treat with a grand contempt, even anger, any uneasiness that one expresses on the French situation. They repeat that this uneasiness is nothing but the result of Communist propaganda, and that one should have the courage to say, in all good conscience, 'Things aren't going so badly...
...arrested (and released) for allegedly plotting to overthrow the Bonn Republic and Colonel Hans Ulrich Rudel, a onetime Luftwaffe ace now living in Argentina. Busy last week warding off the left, Konrad Adenauer threw a worried glance over his shoulder at such distressing signs on the right, warned his countrymen not to play with that kind of fire...
...Four question. Salisbury, who disapproves of the idea himself but has to go along with Churchill's view, took a middle way by suggesting that the question be put aside until after the West German elections in September. Bidault urged a Big Four conference soon. His countrymen, he said, would never ratify the European Defense Community until everything else had been tried. There is. of course, no guarantee that the French will ratify EDC even if a Big Four meeting is held and fails to reach agreement, but Bidault, who hopes to become President of France, wants...
Like many of his countrymen, the sere old peasant Pierre Talabard nursed a deep and lifelong distrust of all that exists beyond the confines of his 37-acre farm in the Allier, 200 miles south of Paris. He worked the rich soil on which he was born 63 years ago, hid what little money he possessed under his mattress, and left the farm only rarely, to stand in silence while his ruddy-cheeked wife Louise haggled with some neighbor over the sale of a family calf. Pierre's distrust of the outside world was in no way softened when...