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...happened, Wilhelmina's reign was to see the world shaken by war, poverty, and floods of doubt and confusion. In World War II she was forced to flee her country, and with all the warmth she had suppressed in her younger years, she worked for liberation. War brought her a sense of comradeship with her people that she had never known. When she returned to her country, she was humble. "I should come hat in hand," she said, "asking if someone can put me up for the night...
When Peronistas brought up a bill to call a convention for amending the Constitution of 1853, the opposition knew that it was time to fight or flee. They fought...
Even so, those who can flee by land are looked on as far better off than those who cannot leave at all. The travelers go by foot or by horsecart. The cart and horses (usually two) are a risk. At best they can be sold along the way for part of the original cost. At worst they will be confiscated by the military; when that happens, the owner had best be humble and pretend he is giving them up as a gift...
...General Karel Janousek, wartime commander of the Czech air force in Britain, was condemned to death for treason when he tried to flee the country. (The sentence was commuted to 18 years at hard labor.) Seventeen other Czech air force men managed to escape to Britain in a "borrowed" plane...
...this was also a society in which his class and the ideology, of his class could play no part. Admiring its positive achievements but unable to adjust himself to its conditions, he chose suicide as a resolution of this conflict. This was certainly a more honorable solution than to flee to Washington and reaction in the manner of Mikolajczyk and Nagy...