Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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None of these events have, been forgotten by Korean patriots, for whom the national struggle for independence is as much in living memory as the American Revolution was in the minds of Americans in the early 1800s. Thus, to his countrymen, Rhee has something of the stature of George Washington; and if his people have not yet heard of a Korean Thomas Jefferson, it is because the political climate of Korea (and Rhee himself) is against the free development of such a typically democratic figure...
...tossed to himself." Said the Knight papers' Ed Lahey: He was "more like the five-star general advising his staff what was going to happen at 1600 hours, and not so much like the Abilene man who tried painfully hard to be a high-minded yokel for his countrymen." But other papers, like the Los Angeles Times, thought Ike's firmness was just what was needed. Said the Times: At the conference he "invited the inference that policy in this Administration is not evoked by the questions of Washington correspondents." Newshen May Craig of the Portland Press-Herald...
Last month Naguib's approval of TIME seemed to be spreading to his countrymen. At the four-day celebration of the first half year of his reign, Naguib announced to a Cairo crowd his plan for a three-year dictatorship. During the parade that followed, the crowds passed shop windows which featured reproductions of Baker's painting of Naguib-blown up to twice the size of the original...
Nonetheless, if Britain had made concessions, so had Naguib. It was through his statesmanlike decision last November, at a time when his countrymen were inflamed against the British, that Egypt for the first time recognized the Sudan's right to self-determination. He also withdrew Egypt's paralyzing refusal to negotiate over the Sudan until British forces evacuated Suez...
...believe," said Diplomat Tsiang, "that an independent offensive on the part of my government will be welcomed by our fellow countrymen on the mainland. Such an offensive is not in the nature of the conquest of mainland China by the island of Formosa. It is in the nature of 8,000,000 Chinese on Formosa going to the mainland to help the 450 million Chinese there to overthrow the Communist yoke which they themselves wish to overthrow...