Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Missionaries feel that Jewish fears for their children's faith are unfounded; though they teach them in a Christian atmosphere, they train them to be loyal to their parents and homeland and do not permit them to be baptized...
...officials estimate, only about 100 defectors have redefected in response to the appeals, which have been made by personal letter, by radio and in new magazines, e.g., Czechoslovakia's For Return to the Homeland. Most have been Czechs, who have the shortest distance to travel, and most have been refugees cooled off by the two-year D.P. camp detention which is all but automatic for escapees from the East. Last week on Poland's Radio Homeland, one Stefan Michalsky." onetime Voice of America announcer, took to the air to say the Vistula never looked lovelier, and to urge...
...this pulling and tugging for the loyalty of Eastern Europe has come a new category: the re-redefector. A Pole showed up at West Berlin last week and said that, after sampling his homeland again, he decided that he likes the West better...
...York Communist trial, and tidelands oil . . . One member of the board brought out that the employee [during the Korean war] dated Japanese girls. Another member tried to establish the fact that the father sought to be patriarchal in his relations with the employee, as fathers were in his homeland of Lithuania. The employee responded that actually the mother wore the pants. The first member asked if the employee traveled around Japan sightseeing, and learned that in addition to his dates with Japanese girls, he had divided his other spare time between the baseball park and the Far East track team...
...testimony of hundreds of loyal ex-P.W.s-looked substantial enough, there was some doubt about the Army's right to try them. Technically, Bell, Cowart and Griggs are civilians-dishonorably discharged from the Army at the time they, and 18 other American turncoats, turned their backs on their homeland and families and disappeared into Red China. But since 1950, the armed forces have claimed the right to seize and court-martial civilians for major crimes committed while in military service. The legality of that claim, as set forth in the 1950 Uniform Code of Military Justice, will soon...