Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stalin. Reuter not only understood the danger, he knew what had to be done to meet it. Said he: "It is not my business to act like a terrified rabbit staring at a snake." For the past four years he had made it his business to rouse in his countrymen the love of freedom that all men have and to urge the free world to let the Germans have the means of defending themselves...
...home last week after six weeks in the U.S., Father Jean Daniélou, SJ.-editor, author and top-rank French intellectual-paused to disagree with some of his U.S.-baiting countrymen...
Like the unblindfolded statue atop the "new" Old Bailey (erected in 1907), Justice finally has her eyes open in 20th Century England. But just to keep his fellow countrymen from congratulating themselves, Author O'Donnell reminds them that only a century or so ago a nine-year-old boy could be sentenced to death for stealing tuppence...
James Van Fleet's countrymen and the Greek people could forgive him the secondhand poetry; he had served the cause of freedom at first hand...
...resolution on Korea. Then Pandit Nehru came home from a trip to Indonesia, Malaya, Burma. For months he had been preaching "neutrality" in the struggle between Communism and the West. What he had seen in other lands, plus the U.S. action on Korea, changed his mind. He amazed his countrymen and the world by lining India up on the side of the U.N. and the U.S. He made it clear for the first time that he considered Communism, not colonialism, the great threat to Asia...