Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Upon observance of that principle depends a lasting and just peace. It is that same principle that protects the western Pacific free-world positions as well as the security of our homeland. If we are not ready to defend this principle, then indeed tragedy after tragedy would befall...
...more than 350,000 Algerians who live and work in France may want to stay out of their homeland's troubles, but they are not allowed to. Scores of them have paid with their lives for refusing or failing to contribute to the F.L.N. (National Liberation Front). An estimated 95% of them now pay up. Last week, in a series of well-planned and devastating acts of sabotage, the F.L.N. terrorists turned, not upon their fellow Algerians, but upon the French themselves. Even as Premier de Gaulle pleaded his cause in Algeria (see above), the two-year-old F.L.N...
...Arabs are determined to be lord and master of their homeland, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Arabian Gulf," shrilled Shukairy. "There must be a rushing consent to Arab aspirations before they are achieved without consent. This psychoneurotic complex of hating President Nasser should be extracted from Western thinking." The ferocity of his language might have been intended to convey verbal loyalty to Nasser and Arab nationalism while concealing Saudi Arabia's unwillingness to pool its $300 million-a-year income with its Arab brothers. As he put it, "Oil, our oil, is not a political commodity of international...
...arrived as the diplomats were gathering to carve up Viet Nam. He pitched his green tent on a patch of lawn outside the Palais des Nations. To protest the division of his homeland, he went on a hunger strike, but the diplomats purring past in their black cars paid no attention, and only blood transfusions saved Vo's life. After his recovery, Vo-a teacher in Viet Nam, where the French often jailed him for his nationalist views-wangled accreditation as a newsman, commandeered a desk in the Palais, and started his own newsletter (in French) to campaign against...
...tried to drive him off his throne. "Hussein," said Nasser, "deviated and disavowed and deceived the people, and followed in the footsteps of his grandfather King Abdullah by inviting the British to occupy his country. Brothers, today there is treason, and another occupation, but it will end. The Arab homeland and people will eliminate the imperialist collaborators. Hussein is exactly like his grandfather Abdullah...