Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Suicide." He had committed, she saw, "the classic type of treachery which every educated person knows at once for the base and final act it is, for Sir Roger Casement committed it in the last war." Like a "poor young idiot" he joined the Nazis' fight against his homeland not when Germany was winning but when she was losing...
...pronouncement. Its principal points: 1) the U.S. for the first time will join with Britain in a Committee of Inquiry to review the Palestine problem; 2) the Committee will prepare a "permanent solution" (probably trusteeship under the United Nations Organization) for submission to UNO; 3) Palestine as the Jewish homeland will not be considered as the only possible solution for the problem of Jewish suffering...
...years Benes' homeland knew the tearing strains and compromises and moral storms of occupation. As in other lands of the New Order, not all Czechs and Slovaks were heroes; some made their reluctant peace with serfdom, some had even welcomed the conqueror. But many fought and many died. In exile, Benes won Allied support for his refugee government, organized a new Czechoslovak army, kept close contact with the homeland's hopes and fears, and planned a new synthesis. "Ideas do not stand still," he said. "We accept the catch phrase of the last war: 'The cure...
...Freedom. Before the liberated Czechs acclaimed his return to the homeland last April, Dr. Benes expressed a double hope: within six months after liberation, Czechoslovaks would hold their first elections; within a year, Czechoslovakia would again be one of the most prosperous states in Central Europe. Last week the first of these promises had not yet been made good, the second stood in fair way of fulfillment...
...Personally, I hope they do not. Although we have certainly destroyed their fleet and are in a fair way to destroy their industry, none of the major ground forces have yet been defeated. If the Kwantung Army [in Manchuria] comes out of this without being defeated and the Japanese homeland itself is not invaded, I feel that we will be heading for trouble in another 40 years...