Word: fatherland
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...week plastered posters throughout Algiers. As if parodying De Gaulle's own grand style, the posters were headed, "I, Raoul Salan, commander in chief," and ended grimly by demanding the "mobilization" of all Algerians to oppose both De Gaulle and the F.L.N. and thus "save Algeria for the fatherland...
...Fatherland. Among the guerrilla-diarists was Captain Nguyen Dinh Kieu, who, with 60 Viet Cong guerrillas, slipped into South Viet Nam last July. "From this day," he wrote, "I am in the fatherland again." He was a fretful commander. After noting that he had punished two guerrillas for getting drunk, he worried that deserters or poor march discipline might alert South Viet Nam Rangers. Some of his men balked at bloodshed, and Kieu wrote pedantically: "This can be remedied only by intense political activity during rest periods...
...celebration, but only 25.000 showed up in time for the speeches. Braving the elements. 6-ft. 7-in. Charles ("Blackie") Swart stepped forward solemnly to take the oath as the nation's first President. It was, he intoned, "a sacred moment in the history of our fatherland.'' In the Afrikaners' eyes, the Boer War was finally won after six bitter decades; no longer would South Africa pay fealty to an alien English-speaking monarch in London...
Model Strongman. In the 31st year of the Era of Trujillo, Generalissimo Doctor Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina. 69, Benefactor of the Fatherland, Rebuilder of the Financial Independence of the Republic, Father of the New Fatherland, Chief Protector of the Dominican Working Class, Genius of Peace, was gone, his body, grotesquely disfigured by 27 bullet wounds, stuffed in the trunk of the soon-to-be-abandoned car belonging to a disgruntled general named Juan Tomás Diaz. Outlived among the world's strongmen by Portugal's milder Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, Trujillo had been the model for every...
Peter the Great. Father of the Fatherland and Emperor of All Russia, spent most of his reign (1682-1725) trying to imitate the culture of the West, but he also kept a cold eye on the East. In Siberia great bands of plunderers were digging up the tombs of a civilization that had disappeared from the pages of history by the 4th century A.D. The looters were after gold, and the tombs were rich in that. Being a practical man, Czar Peter simply gave orders that the looters be looted in turn. Soon plaques and buckles were pouring into...