Word: fatherland
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...pirated. He owns his Hollywood house, and recently rented another, plus a grand piano, for Soulima and family (his daughter Milene lives near by). A U.S. citizen since 1945, he likes to be known as a "California composer." And when Soviet Russia calls him a renegade "man without a fatherland," Stravinsky snorts: "I am an émigré from the Czars, not the Soviets...
...gallows, Brandt was unrepentant. He began a farewell speech. "It is no shame to stand on this scaffold. I served my fatherland as others before me . . ." He was still talking when the black hood dropped over his face...
...correspondents in Berlin, the invitation was an eye-popper. The Soviet-dominated Bulgarian government, which has shown little liking for U.S. newsmen, politely invited them to cover Premier Georgi Dimitrov's big Fatherland Front Congress in Sofia. The terms sounded too good to be true: there would be no censorship; the correspondents could go where they pleased, stay as long as they liked, and English-speaking Sofia newsmen would serve as interpreters...
...plays simultaneously in Moscow last month), recently wrote a novel that seemed to have all the correct ingredients. The Soviet hero returned home after two years in the U.S. to find Russia overwhelmingly more attractive. But the pontiffs weren't satisfied. Simonov's Smoke of the Fatherland, just out, was written off as "immature and unsound." The surprising reason: the Propaganda Committee of the Communist Patty said he hadn't proved his thesis...
...know also that the Western powers intend to put Western Germany to work for Europe. At London Molotov countered by attempting again to delay a German peace settlement, covering up his intention with a shameless bid for German favor. German Communists promptly seconded Molotov by adopting the slogan: "The Fatherland is in danger." In fact, the U.S. and Britain favor (and France will accept) a unified Germany. What the Western powers will resist at London is either a Communist-dominated Germany or the kind of international arrangement which will allow the Russian veto to paralyze recovery and leave both Germany...