Word: fatherland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Herr Editor Richard Dominick of the Dresden Socialist news organ Meissener Volksstimme, was placed on trial last week, charged with "insulting the armed forces of the Fatherland," because he printed last year an editorial censuring the "militaristic" practice of permitting children to play with tin soldiers...
...bleeds," he said, "as I see how under the rule of the Republic the beautiful structure of the past is being demolished, piece by piece. . . . The new rulers, animated by a fanatic hate, without understanding of our traditions" or our holy culture, are undermining the whole structure of the Fatherland...
When U. S. citizens last focused their attention on Count Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff, pre-War Ambassador to the U. S., he was sailing toward home and Fatherland, while the U. S. War-time press thundered accusations that his agents had encomposed every crime from espionage and arson to letting loose deadly bacilli among the perambulators in Central Park, Manhattan...
...wonders concerning the sage's self-appointed attorney. What does he share with the long dead guilty one in addition to the same fatherland? Does the same spirit animate him that kindled the oratorical fires of the king of Sophists? If so he is a unique species. Centuries have brought changes to all countries but none so striking as those to Greece. Occasionally one runs across a person possessed of the true Grecian spirit. The proposition of Socrates modern defender would appear to indicate that he is not among that sacred...
...propounded this question in a campaign speech and answered it himself: "My friends, I will tell you one Christian the Jews have bought! Our Foreign Minister [Dr. Gustav Stresemann] has a villa and a castle given him as bribes by Jewish bankers to reveal State secrets and betray the Fatherland...