Word: fatherland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strong feeling of favor which he had worked up as result of making no attempt to hide his Nationalistic sentiment. "Ludy" was unafraid. Last week, for example, he told his judges that they themselves sat "before the judgment of History, which does not send men who fought for the Fatherland to a fortress, but to a Valhalla...
...maintain in these sad days the firm belief that the objective of the trial will show that everything which my dear comrade and helper did was dictated solely by glowing unselfish love for the Fatherland-and I assume the same motives inspire his present opponents, for I strive to be just to all sides...
...some time there has been some violent criticism in the Fatherland of German plutocrats who, in violation of every canon of good taste and human decency, have lived riotous lives abroad while the masses of German people starve at home...
...embarrass the National Assembly. In deference to the wishes of the Cabinet, however, he agreed to leave Greece temporarily, declaring his "deep conviction and warmest wish that the judgment of the National Assembly of the Greek people will be guided by sentiments of love toward the fatherland and national interests...
...Nationalists but by the German people if a father of a family were not allowed to come back after five years' expulsion from his native country." Dr. von Hoesch, German Chargé d'Affaires in Paris, also defended the return of "little Willy" to the Fatherland to the Quai d'Orsay, French Foreign Office. He pointed out that the principle of granting a passport to the former heir to the Imperial throne had been accepted during October, even by the Socialists, after the Prince had renewed his renunciation of " all his hereditary rights " and promised again...