Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guam's Apra Harbor 2,100 Japs marched aboard a Jap-manned transport en route to their homeland. By December 50,000 more-the last U.S. prisoners in the Pacific-will be returned. Some 90,000 British-held Japs will still remain, and the Dutch have announced that they intend to keep another 13,500 indefinitely in Indonesia for dockside and other heavy labor...
With few exceptions they-whether of the Reformed, Conservative or Orthodox way and even if they call themselves Zionists-think of Palestine as a place of refuge and a homeland for the D.P. s of Europe, and have no thought of returning to the "old country...
They . . . believe that in the U.S.A. they have a true and permanent homeland where, together with their Christian, Mohammedan, Buddhist and atheist fellow Americans they may live, worship and serve as free and equal citizens. They believe that until that condition is possible in every nation, the problem of D.P. s will not be solved. The problem "is only as hard as man's heart...
...proud father returned to his homeland which by then had become Yugoslavia. His chief baggage was Communist fanaticism. He promptly put it to use as a union organizer among the metal workers of Zagreb and Kraljevica. In 1929, Tito was arrested by the Yugoslav Royal Police and remained in jail until 1934. At this point, the biographical barometer registers ceiling zero...
...Armenian homeland is now almost uninhabited. Every Armenian in the world is hoping and praying that the time may soon come when more than half a million exiles can return peacefully to their native land...