Word: fatherland
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Inevitably closer to his thoughts than his love of ancient Greek Philosophy is his vital and personal interest in the plight of his fatherland in 1942, and in the affairs of his countrymen both here and abroad. If the Greeks can survive the war and the ravages of the Axis, he has great faith that they have a future in store for them as glorious as their past...
...native of Seward: he had lived there for years, owned several business establishments, and was treated with respect; was found to be operating a short-wave station which was sending out intercepted messages, information, weather-anything of importance-to his fatherland...
Weighing the costs and responsibilities of preserving "the honor of the fatherland, the unsullied name of Mexico," President Manuel Avila Camacho asked and won approval of a declaration that a state of war has existed since May 22, the expiration date of a Foreign Office protest demanding "complete satisfaction" and a guarantee of reparations for the sinking of the Mexican freighter Potrero del Llano, torpedoed off the Florida coast. The Chamber of Deputies approved, 183-to-0, the Senate 53-to-0 (with five members absent...
...Gauleiters about "joyous celebrations" on the fourth anniversary of the Anschluss. But if he took a bath in the Imperial Hotel, where he stayed in the spring of 1938, Hitler would have to dry himself with paper towels. Hotel owners can now be hanged as "traitors to the fatherland" unless they surrender all cloth towels. They are needed for bandages on the Russian front...
...last week clever George Viereck found himself on trial in Washington for not telling his children's Government all about his work for his Fatherland. Witnesses testified that bespectacled, thick-lipped George Viereck had helped write speeches for Congressmen (including Minnesota's late Senator Ernest Lundeen), had mailed them throughout the nation in franked envelopes furnished by Congress man Ham Fish's secretary, George Hill (TIME...