Word: fatherland
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...hypocritical upon the lips of the average Americanization worker, rings true as spoken by a Swede to members of his own race in this country. It stands out likewise as unique. In moments of extreme nationalism, nations have maintained spies in foreign lands to link emigrants to their abandoned fatherland. Seldom do they even now encourage complete expatriation. Ties of sentiment and race forbid. The lands of Europe have long regarded emigration as imperialistic energy gone to waste, and begrudged to the land to which their sons departed the fruits of their toil...
...stand before you as a beggar. I have lost all for the fatherland. Only my good name is left, but even this I would be willing to sacrifice for the cause of Hungary...
...Court to place the entire blame upon my shoulders. I beg for the acquittal of the men who obeyed my orders, seeing in me their protector in a great service to the fatherland...
Lion. As the week opened, Poland's most terrifying "lion," Marshal Joseph Pilsudski, was brooding upon his wrongs and the decay of the fatherland, at his country estate near Warsaw...
...appreciate keenly the sentiments expressed by the Congress and its affirmation that the Russian emigres are ready to second my efforts to save the fatherland...