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...please everyone. Students in Seoul denounced the treaty as "a sellout of the country." Opposition parties expressed fear that normal relations would "bring Korea again under Japan's economic and political domination." In Tokyo, South Koreans paraded under a banner reading, "Don't sell our fatherland for cheap money." But such peripheral protests are not likely to affect the draft treaty, and both countries seem to have concluded realistically that neighbors living in the shadow of Red China had better be friends than enemies...
Polaris-Malinovsky darkly warned that Russia's armed forces would "protect the fatherland and all countries of the Socialist community against any plots of aggressors." If Chou was impressed, he did not show it. To demonstrate his continued disdain for Khrushchevian wrong-think, he ducked around the back of Lenin's Tomb and paid a reverential visit to Stalin's modest grave outside the Kremlin wall...
...This is Radio Free Cuba, the anti-Communist voice of Cuba broadcasting on the 40-meter band. Worker, militiaman, rebel soldier, radio ham-help topple the despot! Close ranks so that the fatherland, today bloodied by Russian imperialism, becomes the tomb of Communism in America. This is Radio Free Cuba transmitting from a point in Cuban territory...
...Moscow and Petersburg, Lenin swiftly turned nationalist, calling on Russians to defend "the Socialist fatherland...
...firm determination to follow his lofty example," Constantine declared. "I pledge to serve my country with wholehearted devotion, and all my powers as a vigilant guardian of the free institutions of the democratic regime. My only thoughts and cares will always be the true and supreme interest of our fatherland." When the vows had been spoken, Premier George Papandreou shouted "Long live the King!" and the assemblage echoed the words. At 23 the world's youngest monarch, Constantine will be tutored in statecraft by the foxy Papandreou,* 76, whose Center Union coalition won a landslide victory over Karamanlis...