Word: fatherland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ernst ("Putzi") Hanfstängl, Hitler's onetime pianist-in-waiting, who spent most of the war in Allied hands, was back in Germany and suing the fatherland for damages. He had fled for his life in 1937, he told the Bavarian State Commission for Persecutees, and he wanted $16,150 compensation...
Novelist Hesse himself wrote from the Olympian vantage point of Switzerland, where he took refuge from the Fatherland in 1912 and where he still lives, now aged 70. He has half a hundred books to his credit and a considerable popularity on the Continent, at least among oldsters...
...Embassy gate, Cop Simon had found his tongue. As Soragna stepped out Simon observed cheerfully, "The sun has come out, monsieur." The Italian nodded. He was heading back to Rome, where Italians were working themselves into spasms of grief over the treaty he had just signed. "The fatherland is in mourning," said black-bordered newspapers in Rome...
From Turkey: Ahmed Emin Yalman, editor of Istanbul's newspaper Vatan (Fatherland), is a small, mild-mannered man with an immense capacity for daring independence. He finished his education in the U.S. (three years at Columbia University), then started his paper in 1923, after helping to bring gusty Kamal Atatürk to power. In 1925 Atatürk suspended Ahmed Emin's paper for ten years because he had criticized Government policies. In 1935 Ahmed Emin took up where he had left off. During the war, Vatan was one of the few journals in Turkey which strongly...
...vote against the Communist-dominated Government. The Government thundered back: "The Vatican is a friend of the Germans!" Anti-Semitic terrorists circulated stories that the Government had allowed Jews to torture and kill 160 non-Jewish Poles imprisoned in the city of Radom. The extreme rightist underground paper Honor & Fatherland proclaimed that, unless the U.S. and Britain eventually severed relations with the Government, Poland's only hope was a future war between the great powers...