Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...history will tell any loyal American, Bostonian, Middle-Westerner, or Hawaiian, that the people of Hawaii are being imposed upon when their homeland is called a "possession." It is legally and historically "an integral part of the United States." As a sovereign and independent nation, the Republic of Hawaii joined itself to the United States in 1898. As a Honolulu columnist once said, Hawaii owns the United States just as much as the United States owns Hawaii. Even the island school children feel disgusted when some American minor statesman starts showing himself sufficiently uninformed to consider Hawaii a "possession...
...many muddies Lloyd George reveals is that as late as 1915 the Allies were bidding up the price of T.N.T. in the U. S. market by competitive purchases. He throws fresh light on British foreign policy when he explains that the Balfour Declaration (for a Jewish homeland) was a reward conferred on Dr. Chaim Weizmann for discovering a new process for speeding up the production of wood alcohol, vitally needed by the British Ministry of Munitions...
...late Austrian Emperor Karl, made a bid for restoration. In letters to three Austrian towns which conferred honorary citizenship on him last week (as have 144 towns previously) Otto declared, "With God's help I will be in Austria on a day not far distant to lead my homeland with a strong hand, happy and sure of a great future." Chancellor Dollfuss, to squelch any possible suspicion that his new Corporative State will be topped (like Italy's) with a Crown, telephoned orders barring the letters from being made public...
...leaders had already fled the Reich. Long before Chancellor Hitler came to power, Nazi Frick as Minister of Culture and Interior in Thuringia made every schoolchild in that State kneel down every day and pray "Oh God. I believe Thou punishest the traitor and blessest the Liberator of our Homeland. Free us from deceit and treason!" Last week Dr. Frick denounced the entire Socialist Party as "treasonable . . . subversive and inimical to the State and people...
...site is the Chateaubriand Estate and its architect will be taken from a present employment in Rheims Cathedral. Every feature of American luxury has representation, including the swimming pool and the ubiquitous cafeteria, in what is apparently a very thorough and a very sincere attempt to transplant the homeland with its virtues and its faults intact...