Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stumbled back with them to Athens when the Germans moved in. Eventually he escaped, last March became War Minister and Vice Premier of the Greek Government in Exile. Four weeks ago he resigned. Last week the exiled government had moved from London to Cairo-2,300 miles nearer the homeland which invasion will some day recover from the Axis...
...audible political factions inside France. He has strong support in Britain, where he has worked closely with British officials. A Hyde Park comic drew laughs last week by purposefully mixing up Free, Fighting and Flirtatious French; but to the British people and Frenchmen imprisoned in their homeland De Gaulle is respected as a gallant fighter who carried high the French tricolor when other Frenchmen faltered, compromised...
...from 16 to 65, women between 17 and 45 were ordered to register for compulsory labor service. Civilian consumer goods were cut down to the barest necessary minimum. Community kitchens were planned to replace domestic help. Said the SS newspaper Schwarze Korps: "The homeland is to live only in order to work...
...Italian people Tripoli was a proud name, a "jewel city." They saw logic in Mussolini's empire-mongering when Tripolitania produced olives, grapes, barley, wheat, almonds and figs for the homeland. It cost millions of lire to get production started, but the returns were in food, not, as in other of Il Duce's ventures, in crippled and dead soldiers...
...decree. But Tresca had powerful foes also in Communist ranks and among the "ex-Fascists" in this country, whose influence he bitterly fought. He was a man without a party, yet he spoke thoughts that are going through the minds of millions of his countrymen, here and in the homeland, who stand against oppression. But the disturbing thing was that Tresca's murder might have cast upon the New World the shadow of Old World political murder...