Word: fatherland
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...said Dr. Schacht, it is paradoxically true that Germany is the most heavily taxed country of all. Reason: while the Briton's and the Frenchman's tax money is spent at home, to his indirect enrichment, the German's tax payments are largely wrested from the Fatherland in the form of Reparations thus impoverishing instead of enriching, as all other nations...
...ALEXANDER, KING OF THE SERBS, CROATS AND SLOVENES, FEEL IT MY DUTY AS A SON OF THIS LAND TO TURN TO YOU, ITS PEOPLE, AND FRANKLY AND TRUTHFULLY TELL YOU WHAT IN THIS MOMENT MY CONSCIENCE AND LOVE OF THE FATHERLAND COMPEL...
...Germans cries for vengeance and revenge. How fervently we must hate has been taught us by the French. This hate should be holy to us. It should be handed down as a legacy from generation to generation until that hour when freedom and the fulfillment of the Fatherland's aims have been attained...
...rank with Nero, Caligula and the madder Tsars of Russia. This memorable and awful personage, Francisco Lopez, was the son of the benevolent dictator Carlos Antonio Lopez (1840-62) who erected Paraguay into a prosperous and flourishing state. Upon the death of his father Villain Lopez plunged his fatherland into a series of wars so insane and ruinous that the population of 1,300,000 in 1862 bled itself down in eight years to less than 30,000 able-bodied men and 200,000 women, children, gaffers. Perhaps never before has a ruler so nearly suicided his own people...
Defeated, as the Reichstag settled to business last week, was a freak bill presented by Deputies of the extreme and reckless Right. Its essence: "Germany shall discontinue Dawes Plan payments and use the money to build an Army and Navy adequate for the Fatherland's defense...