Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Communists, hoping to repeat in London the bloody Ridgway riots that greeted NATO Supreme Commander General Matthew B. Ridgway in Paris, failed to take the British character of their countrymen into account. When the Communists tried to spread leaflets, seven were arrested on charges of disorderly behavior and dropping "litter . . . otherwise than in a proper receptacle." Other comrades sneaked up to the U.S. embassy in tree-lined Grosvenor Square and daubed "Yank, Go Home" messages across the windshields of a line of U.S. cars...
...Tokyo the U.S. has a four-star general who-like most of his countrymen-would like nothing better than to lay his watch on the table and tell the Communists at Panmunjom to sign an armistice, or else. The man is General Mark Wayne Clark, 56, U.S. Far East commander, U.N. commander in Korea, commander of the U.S. security forces in newly sovereign Japan. But despite obvious parallels, Clark's situation is somewhat different from that of the intrepid British commodore of 1742. In 1952, the Communists have already drawn out the negotiations so long that in North Korea...
...past 16 years, the ex-president has delivered more than 50 carefully considered, formal lectures to his fellow countrymen. But he has not limited himself to exhortation. He has thrown himself into many worthy projects: into programs of relief for the hungry; into studies of such topics as revolution, war & peace, and the chaos in the executive departments of the U.S. Government (from this last, he produced the monumental Hoover Commission Report); into organizations like the Boys' Clubs and the Salvation Army, in which he takes his participation very seriously. A friend remembers him, travelling west by train...
...satraps of Stalin and mere party hand-raisers. But in the bowels of the city, the Russian secret police rebuilds its organization; in the forests, guerrillas stir, and from the east comes the Russian counterattack. By the end of the story the Russians are back in Kharkov, exterminating their countrymen who wavered during the Nazi occupation...
...Konrad Adenauer abruptly canceled further talks with the French; they had been unable, he said, to grasp "the European idea" and had double-crossed him. His action, in turn, jeopardized the political future of France's Foreign Minister Robert Schuman, who has trouble enough trying to persuade his countrymen" to bargain with Germans...