Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Howard E. Wilson, UNESCO's deputy director, had already seen a need for the person so trained: the international civil .servant. Said Wilson: "He must be more than a transplanted citizen of his homeland. He must be a citizen of the world...
...camps. . . . Actually, the entire Soviet Union is a concentration camp. . . . Even men belonging to the closest entourage of the dictator do not feel safe. . . . This is why the great majority of the Russian people hate the Soviet regime. . . . And this is the reason why I cannot return to my homeland and doom my family...
Died. Max Warburg, 79, famed international Hamburg banker, brother of Manhattan bankers Paul and Felix Warburg; after long illness; in Manhattan. Though a Jew, he remained in his homeland after Hitler rose to power, devoted himself to aiding and rescuing Jews marked for persecution, finally in 1939 fled to the U.S., in 1944 became a U.S. citizen...
...meeting in Agassiz Hall yesterday afternoon, Jacques Ruff, French United Nations delegate, addressed in French Le Cercle inter-Universitaire on persisting effects of the German occupation of his homeland...
Crass Coincidence. Back in his homeland, Indio shot up rapidly in Mexican movies, was soon a leading actor. From a friendly, peripatetic U.S. script writer, with whom he became buddies, Indio learned story technique. In time he became the country's leading director, turned out the enormously successful films that Dolores del Rio made in Mexico after leaving Hollywood. For three years, Indio and Dolores were always seen together. Now they are only socially polite...