Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italians' romantic love of their homeland and their nostalgia for past glories, he espoused the cult of Romanism. He fancied himself a new Julius Caesar, was courted by the world's big shots, loved to be called leonine and at the same time "father of his people." He helped Adolf Hitler to power, was mastered by his pupil. Trapped by his own illusions of grandeur, he led his people into war in an unholy alliance with Germany and Japan. By 1943 he had lost his Empire, and Allied bombs and bayonets threatened to chase him into...
...Bloody Slow. On that night some 200 R.A.F. planes attacked the Renault truck and tank works at Billancourt, near Paris. It was a "saturation raid" of a type soon to become familiar to the Germans in the homeland. What Harris had done was to mass bombers on a scale never at tempted by his predecessors. He was soon to do it on a scale never possible to the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain...
...less than three weeks Eduard Benes, President of Czecho-Slovakia's Government in Exile, made nine formal speeches and one short-wave broadcast to his homeland, conferred with hundreds of friends, greeted thousands of admirers. Wherever he went he planted the thought that the rains of war and the guided plowshares of revolution can help grow good democrats in Europe...
...agreed between us that we should at the earliest possible moment . . . bring our joint air power to bear upon the military targets in the homeland of Japan...
...British in their alignment with U.S. policy, even General de Gaulle sometimes forget that there are two De Gaulles. One is the hypersensitive, often arrogant, always difficult De Gaulle in London. The other is the De Gaulle who commands the unquestioning faith and loyalty of millions in his occupied homeland...