Word: fatherland
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...answers are that the U. S. citizens, Britons and even Frenchmen invested their billions in Germany because the world's best brains agree that the Fatherland was not and is not now threatened by invasion...
...satellites. Word had arrived that a great man from Germany was coming to do homage to the Emperor of the French. The sage of Weimar, who had sent Faust stalking through the halls of Europe, and through the imagination of his contemporaries, the man who had called France the fatherland of his genius, passed through the courts of the palace, and entered the presence of the Emperor. When he bowed in the doorway, Napoleon, first among those present to greet him, raised his arm and cried "voila un homme...
...German Empire lasted, its national anthem (sung to the same music as Britain's "God Save the King") was Heil dir im Siege skranz-"Hail thou whose victor's crown safeguards thy realm's re- nown; all hail to thee [i.e. the Kaiser]!" After the Fatherland became a Republic, its Socialist first President, Friedrich Ebert...
...Switzerland, Kita, who has spent about four weeks in Cambridge, was a student in the Harvard Graduate School in 1918. After leaving Harvard Kita became a professor of Philosophy at Waseda University in Tokyo, and after this gradually became more and more in sympathy with fascism in Japan; the Fatherland Society is one of several Fascist groups in Japan...
...afraid. I am neither Royalist nor Communist. I hope that my son, who is yet unborn, will not become a Communist. Tell my wife I love her dearly and ask pardon for all I have done. I commend myself to the Russian peasantry! Ah Russia, Russia my fatherland...