Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Clouds Gather. Chumphot, Phumiphon and many of their countrymen had been strongly influenced by the West. For good & ill, Siam was changing, yet it remained outside the main patterns of transition through which its neighbors were passing. Unique in many ways, Siam was most important in the fact that it had escaped any serious contact with Western imperialism. India had been unified by imperialism and its cultures had been left more or less intact under a veneer of Westernization; its rulers in independence were trying to bring old & new together. Burma's ancient way of life had been...
...trains, a storied track for international diplomats and international intrigue. Karpe had Compartment ll of the Bucharest sleeper. There were six other passengers in the car, including two friends, Secretary John Oliver Wright II, of the British legation in Bucharest, and Mrs. Wright. The Britons were accompanied by two countrymen-a king's messenger (or diplomatic courier) and his military guard...
...harder on his own Reds. Last week he summoned his countrymen to combat "Communist lawlessness." India's Reds, he said, were "lunatics or utter idiots" if they thought that "throwing a bomb here or burning a tramcar there could influence millions of people...
...Labor Party election manifesto, said Churchill, contains "an effective design, or plot-for that is a truer term-to obtain power .over their fellow countrymen such as no British government has ever sought before...
Gorer suggests that this and other Brit' ish traits need psychological study. Then, with the eyes of his countrymen upon him, Gorer bows hurriedly out of the room. Says he: "I hope that this work will be undertaken in the not too distant future...