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...hard core of a fighting division, well trained by Red army officers in the use of tanks and heavy artillery. Last week the Reds announced that they will expand the People's Police into a full-fledged national army, probably 25 divisions strong, "to defend the fatherland...
...Security Office, or secret police. "We held this completely in our hands from the first day of its existence. Our party demanded the leadership and tolerated no respecting of coalition-proportion whatsoever . . . Under the conditions in our country when troops of the liberating Soviet Union were staying in our fatherland, no open armed revolt was possible...
...today is that of Adenauer's arch political enemy, Socialist Kurt Schumacher, 56. It is not the voice of cooperation, but the high-strung voice of a nationalist, a patriot gone zealot. Schumacher is a frail, cadaverous man of unexpected vigor. He gave his right arm to the Fatherland on the Russian front in World War I, lost his left leg following his ten years in Nazi concentration camps. In the Bundestag, where he holds great sway, he is a frightening performer. He jabs at every word with the bony fingers of his one hand. He has staked...
...Leonidas Trujillo Molina announced last week that he would not seek a fifth term in next year's presidential election. But, he added, "my presence shall not be lacking in the solution of any fundamental problem." Dominicans knew what that meant: Generalissimo Trujillo, self-styled Benefactor of the Fatherland, would still be watching...
...Roman Senate accused Scipio and his brother of accepting bribes and misappropriating funds, he tore up the account books in question, flung them on the floor of the Senate, and went into embittered exile. On his tomb, he ordered the inscription: "Ingrata patria, ne ossa quidem habebis [Ungrateful fatherland, you shall not have even my bones...