Word: fatherland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bound sticks of Fascist heraldry, but to "the symbols of their millenary and everlasting glory ... the Catholic faith and the monarchy of Savoy." He tried to rouse them with a prediction-which was an admission of impending defeat in Sicily: "On the sacred soil of our adored fatherland," cried he, "we shall find more favorable conditions to gain victory. . . . Italians! It is today or never more...
Noting that they write in "this solemn hour when it is important to collect all strength for the welfare of the Fatherland," the bishops called for a halt to the "unrestricted antireligious agitation of Star party officers . . . destructive measures against the Church and Christianity. . . . One cannot expect to win hard-working and upright people for Germany and at the same time destroy the happiness of their hearts. . . . One cannot undertake to build a new and fairer Europe and to destroy Christianity at the same time...
That Russia's philosophy has changed from one of championing proletariat revolt to one solely for the betterment of the fatherland, was the view expressed by R. C. Macridis, teaching fellow in Government. He predicts that the Soviet's party line will change when the United States and England are exhausted, revealing the old Czarist idea of expansion...
...Bavarian General Staff sent a young officer, Major Karl Haushofer, to study the workings of the Japanese Army. Traveling slowly via Suez and Singapore, young Haushofer hailed the flag of the Rising Sun with "immense relief." His long journey from the Fatherland had been humiliating: at many stages of the ship's passage-Gibraltar, Malta, Cyprus, Aden, India, Singapore-he had seen a rocky bastion rise from the water flying the British Union Jack. A trained geographer, young Haushofer well knew of Britain's imperial lifeline. But on his trip this line took on a new and shocking...
Bock, the Prussian, born in a Prussian fortress 61 years ago, required men to die for the Fatherland, for the glory of arms, for themselves ("Our profession should always be crowned by heroic death in battle"). Once he had commanded men to die for the Emperor. Now, with impersonal fervor, he said: "For the Führer." He expected them to die only when necessary, and then to die coldly ("The ideal soldier thinks only when ordered to do so"). His role was not to lead them into battle, or to die with them, but to see that they...