Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fiction that the U.S. is deluging the Korean and Chinese Communists with bacteriological weapons. Peking newspapers printed photographic "proof" of weird insects and rotting food. So did London's Daily Worker. The editors of the New York Daily Worker joined in the cry against their own countrymen. In Italy, in France, in Belgium, Holland and West Germany there were Communist protest parades. And in Teheran last week Communist youths, shouting "Germ warfare," touched off a riot of 10,000; it left twelve dead and 250 injured...
Unruffled as always, British justice, is the person of periwigged Sir Reginald Powell Croom-Johnson, peered over the rims of its half-moon spectacles and remarked with acerbity: "This is a very ordinary case." But to the ruddy-cheeked Sussex countrymen who jammed a Lewes courtroorn last week, the air seemed charged with mysterious mesmeric forces. There was, for example, the plea of plaintiff's counsel that the defendant "should not sit anywhere in sight" of his client. "You are asking," inquired Justice Croom-Johnson, "that he should not hypnotize her?" Barrister John Flowers, Queen's Counsel, replied...
...increasingly, as a delegate to the U.N. To millions in the Western world, who react with uneasiness and doubt to the U.S. atom bomb and U.S. emphasis on material success, she is a symbol of hope, sanity and human dignity. Her earnest idealism, which many of her own countrymen sometimes find a little absurd, is eminently reassuring to great masses of people who are exposed to Communist cries of American warmongering. So is her habit of attacking complex problems in hopeful, homely terms. She is received abroad as a sort of senior "First Lady" of the U.S. At home...
...This is my dream-all British," Empire Builder Cecil Rhodes once said, placing the palm of his hand across the map of Africa. Rhodes spoke 75 years ago, and in the following half-century his countrymen came close to fulfilling his dream. In West Africa's jungles, they founded two great river colonies: the Gold Coast, which is bigger than Minnesota, and Nigeria, which dwarfs Texas and Oklahoma combined, and is Britain's most populous (25 million) African possession. Following Explorer David Livingstone in his search for the source of the Nile, they filtered into East Africa, crossed...
...been urging Franco Spain to show greater religious tolerance to its 20,000 Protestants. Pedro Cardinal Segura y Saenz, Archbishop of Seville, a man of monolithic opinions who dislikes Franco, the U.S. and Protestantism, told his countrymen this week that toleration would never do. Wrote Cardinal Segura in a pastoral letter...