Word: fatherland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crusades, defeated her and captured European kings. Egypt threw British troops into the sea. Egypt's southern boundary extends as far as the equator. Egypt is the centre of the world, the Mother of Civilization, and the Cradle of all religions. Your motto must be: 'Allah, the Fatherland and the King...
...distract German public opinion from it by scoring some particularly huge "success"-such as recovering German colonies or absorbing Austria. Up to 1914 the total number of Germans resident in the Kaiser's colonies was only 24,000-less than the number of German residents in Paris. The Fatherland's trade with all German colonies in 1914 amounted to only 1% of Germany's total trade. Today such facts of economic history are flung by Germans on the scrap heap. In Hamburg last week an especially vehement colony-demanding speech was made by General Göring...
...last week attending to his business in Oslo. The gentleman with whom Mrs. Roosevelt chatted was Norway's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Halvdan Koht, who is visiting the U. S. to confer with Secretary of State Cordell Hull about a new trade treaty with his fatherland, and to give a series of lectures at Harvard and Columbia. A kindly, wire-haired Socialist of 64, Dr. Koht lectured at Harvard seven years ago, predicted much earlier, in a book, Capital and Labor in America, that the U. S. was drifting toward Socialism. Said Dr. Koht last week before his visit...
...above remark, and last week they were not surprised when Der Führer, having welcomed the Duke & Duchess of Windsor to his Bavarian château, drew royal Edward aside and was seen to engage him for 20 minutes in heated conversation. "The tour of our Fatherland which the Duke and Duchess have now completed," remarked one of the Dictator's aides, "has shown how right Der Führer was in judging that King Edward's abdication would be a serious blow to German interests." With ladies Herr Hitler is always the pink of effusive German...
...been created and means will have to be found to keep the Dictator from being elected to each. Last week "Most Popular Soviet Novelist" Peter Pavlenko sloganed: "For richer fields and bigger rivers, for better mines and still more triumphant airplanes, for faster ships, for deeper knowledge of our fatherland-for Stalin...