Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nearly two years Turk Westerling had been a fugitive from his own countrymen, and from the Indonesian Republic-wanted by both for homicide and other crimes committed in Indonesia after the islands won their independence from The Netherlands. A burly, moonfaced lone wolf who was born in Istanbul 32 years ago of a Dutch father and Greek mother, he served in World War II with the Australians in North Africa, and as one of Lord Mountbatten's bodyguards in Asia; he became a Moslem, twice made the pilgrimage to Mecca. When the Dutch gave up their effort to hold...
...Village Level. Besides giving foreigners something to think about, Pastor Robinson brought home some words for his countrymen. He warned U.S. Christians that the "younger churches" of Asia are growing up and want to be run still more by their own leaders. "It is time to drop the word 'missionary,' which becomes increasingly offensive." More generally, he feels, Americans, Christian or otherwise, have not got their message across to Asia: "Many of us have not yet learned the elementary psychology of color...
Specifically, the talks involved reparations for resettling in Israel 500,000 Jews who escaped the Nazis. The Israelis asked $1 billion, insisting it was strictly a cost figure, no damages included. The Israelis felt uncomfortable even to be discussing this subject with Germans, but their countrymen were hard-pressed...
...that time it may also have dawned on him that he had small chance of winning at the polls. As the Strong Man blandly explained the situation: "The young officers became restless, and they put themselves in touch with me." Batista heeded his countrymen's importunate pleas and plunged into conspiratorial planning with some of his old comrades...
...Dream-Blind. The sympathy of his fellow countrymen has not softened Blaster Lewis much. His newest book, Rotting Hill, is a volume of nine short stories-in which most of the stories are not stories at all. They are the polemics of an enraged preacher who is neither Labor nor Tory, Christian nor pagan, democrat nor aristocrat. Their aim is to tell