Word: fatherland
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Germans were saddened by this statement. It killed a popular rumor of long standing that the Fatherland's two greatest shipmasters would pool their resources to build the largest ship in the world. True, Germans built the largest ships of today- the sisters Majestic and Leviathan-which belonged to the Hamburg American Line until seized by the Allies after and during the War. But the French Line now has under construction a ship designed to be bigger than the Leviathan or Majestic, faster than the Bremen, and German hearts are sore that Frenchmen are about to worst them...
...love, serve, obey, and exalt the United States of America. . . . To keep alive the cult with Italy as the Fatherland and the eternal light of civilization and greatness. . . . To submit to the discipline of the hierarchy of the Fascist League of North America...
...belong to those ungrateful ones who forget what the Kaiser has done for the Army and for the Fatherland's prestige. . . . He was our best comrade. ... I owe my successes to the grace of my Emperor who appointed...
...World War is not yet ended. . . . I hope a new German Army will carry on the old Prussian spirit and virtue. I pray to witness the beginning of the Fatherland's resurrection...
...still more loans from abroad, "loans which fertilize German industry as the waters of the Nile fertilize the parched soil of Egypt." As a "borrowing man" he enjoys the thoroughgoing contempt of Reichsbank President Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, always a "bear" on German futures, who constantly grumbles that the Fatherland has already borrowed far too much...