Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ralph McAllister Ingersoll, away three and a half years from editing Manhattan's pinko tabloid PM, cast a returned-war-veteran's eye on his strike-stricken homeland, bubbled happily in his first editorial: "Everybody else seems terribly upset . . . and I discover I feel fine about it."' Reason for feeling fine: 1) the auto strikers' solidarity; 2) the "exciting new note of unity" in the telephone and wire strikes; 3) the lack of complacency among industrialists; 4) the homesick G.I.s' "refusal ... to be content with the malarkey." Summed up happy Veteran Ingersoll: "I am sorry...
...Homeland dear, you're mine at last...
They had fled from their Baltic homeland after it was taken over by Russia, refused to go back to their Communist-dominated country. It had taken virtually all their money to buy the Erma's 36-ft. hull, to install an old marine engine, and equip her with sails and stores. The Erma was small but she was seaworthy. And the leader of the expedition, tough, blue-eyed Harri Pahlberg, was a master mariner. So was the first mate, leathery Arvid Kuun...
Rising Price. The imperial-minded Acting Governor General had told equally imperial-minded homeland ministers some unpalatable truths. Indonesian nationalism had come to stay. It was not transitory, as they wished to believe. It permeated 72 million people, and it could not be put down by a few divisions of troops. It had to be recognized...
...Mook recalled Queen Wilhelmina's pledge of 1942: a new policy for the Empire, a Commonwealth composed of the homeland, Indonesia, Surinam and Curasao. Now was the time to set it up. He agreed with Premier Schermerhorn that full Indonesian self-government was out of the question for 15 to 20 years. But something limited must be granted; it must be worked out with "moderate" Indonesian leaders. He proposed the calling of an Indonesian Assembly under a Cabinet to be headed by himself...