Word: fatherland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. George Sylvester Viereck, 77, prim and cocky German propagandist in two world wars, a German-born naturalized U.S. citizen who turned to poetry and journalism, worshiped strong men and machines, drew fire for editing the Fatherland magazine for German-Americans in the World War I era, and in World War II was sent to prison for almost four years on conviction of failing to register as an agent on the payroll of Germany to distribute propaganda through U.S. mails; of a stroke; in Hoi-yoke, Mass...
...nationalists were vying for control of Bismarck's newly unified Germany. Mary took the side of the nationalists, whose religious fervor appealed to her. She befriended a fiery Lutheran preacher named Adolph Stoecker and installed him in her salon, where he led the company in hymns to the Fatherland, and excoriated Jews. Mary dreamed of a pure Protestant empire stretching from the U.S. to Europe to the Middle East, and rabid nationalists from all over Germany swarmed to sit at her feet. Under her influence, Wilhelm lost all interest in liberalism. When he succeeded to the throne...
...time barrier. The F.L.N.'s first Premier and grand old man Ferhat Abbas wrote despairingly in 1934: "If I had discovered an Algerian nation I would be a nationalist. Men who die for a patriotic ideal are honored and respected. But I would not die for an Algerian fatherland because such a fatherland does not exist. I cannot find it. I questioned history. I questioned the living and the dead. I searched through the cemeteries. Nobody could speak to me of it. You cannot build...
...last week, most of Algeria's Moslems felt that they had built their own fatherland in seven years of life-and-death struggle. Said an F.L.N. leader: "We now have a history, a nation, even our own myths, our songs and our legendary heroes." One thing the F.L.N. has not done: it has not conquered its new fatherland. The Moslems never beat the French army as it was beaten in Indo-China at Dien-bienphu. Rather, by tenacity, courage and discipline, the F.L.N. finally forced the French to give up the embattled country. For the future, this military stand...
...week plastered posters throughout Algiers. As if parodying De Gaulle's own grand style, the posters were headed, "I, Raoul Salan, commander in chief," and ended grimly by demanding the "mobilization" of all Algerians to oppose both De Gaulle and the F.L.N. and thus "save Algeria for the fatherland...