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Rubble & Blossoms. By last week some 18,000 square miles of the Fatherland's "sacred soil" east of the Rhine had passed from German sovereignty for the first time in more than a century. Over a score of great cities flew Allied flags-and the little white flags of the conquered Reich...
Teacher: Why was our dear Fatherland so magnanimous in granting peace terms...
...Sofia radio casually announced a piece of news: flashing-eyed, mop-maned Georgi Dimitroff, storied revolutionary, had come home at last. After 22 years of exile, the burly, brimstony Bulgarian had taken his rightful place as the No. 1 Communist in the Fatherland Front, his country's dominating political coalition...
...obtained his release, then sent a plane to whisk him to his new home. He was hailed as a hero. Lenin's widow and sister sent him flowers. "I am a soldier of the revolution," Dimitroff said, "and will fight where duty sends me. . . . The U.S.S.R. is my fatherland...
...Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, who opened up Japan to western trade and influence. Last fortnight members of the Imperial Rule Assistance Youth Corps, "amidst yo-heave-ho shouts," tore it down. Replacing the Perry Monument is a wooden monolith with inscriptions "to stimulate the spirit to defend the fatherland...