Word: fatherland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wholesale distributors in at least two fields (hardware and drugs), sold countless other products (iron, steel, chemicals, arms, machine tools, engines, etc.). Unlike most Americans, the German businessmen learned the language and manners of their Mexican customers, frequently married Mexicans. Many became Mexican citizens. But they seldom forgot the Fatherland...
...late great Cardinal Mercier which kept up the morale of occupied Belgium during World War I. Angry Nazis promptly closed every Belgian church for three days but the pastoral circulated regardless. In it the six prelates recognized the Nazis only "as a de facto power," proclaimed that "the Belgian fatherland continues to exist," urged "national solidarity" and "moral unity," closed with an appeal to remember Armistice Day and to pray for all Belgians fallen in "the preceding and in this...
...Nazi airlines twists and twines, like the tentacles of a determined octopus over 23,000 miles of strategic routes (South American mileage of Pan Am & affiliates: 26,000 miles). Owned or controlled by huge Deutsche Lufthansa, they operate at a considerable financial loss. But their pilots fly for the Fatherland, not for pfennigs. Lufthansa and her keen-eyed brood are 1) the arteries of German propaganda taken from Wilhelmstrasse to Rio by the Italian airline Lati, 2) the training schools where Nazi pilots learn South American topography, gain practice in long-distance flying, 3) the outposts from which hemisphere defenses...
...bless our dear fatherland." Ex-President Dr. Eduard Benes of Czecho-Slovakia: "Germany is defeated...
...Gaulle: "With the Hun in Paris, Bordeaux. Lille, Reims and Strasbourg, and with the Italians pretending to dictate their will to the French nation, there is nothing else to do but fight. ... To treat with the enemies, to accept their control, to cooperate with them, is to betray the fatherland...