Word: homelands
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Niagara. If you allow yourself to be irritated by their talk it will mean you cannot find things to equal them in Britain. ... If an American soldier brags about his country, in all probability he is feeling pretty homesick for it and just to talk about it brings his homeland nearer." >"Don't talk about Chicago gangsters as if they represented 90% of the population. The films have fostered this impression, but the vast majority of the American people live much as we do and have the same religions and much the same politics. That is why the United...
...this confusion, with their homeland fully occupied and under Hitler's creature Pierre Laval, no one could say which way French minds would turn. But there were trends: it was reported by one labor leader who fled from France to London, with Air General d'Astier de la Vigerie, that President Roosevelt's stock had dropped 75% in France when Darlan was appointed, that General Giraud had "disappointed us all." The hopes of Frenchmen, in his view, were still pinned on De Gaulle; while Admiral Darlan held his present post, he said, the French people would never...
...long-awaited air offensive. Such rejoicing was premature. But by simple arithmetic the Japs could figure that if U.S. bombers were within range of Linhsi and Hong Kong, they were within range of most of the Stolen Empire-Korea, Formosa, Manila, Manchuria-and even of the island homeland...
LONDON--Gen. Charles De Gaulle, leader of the Fighting French, announced by radio tonight that the moment has come for French patriots to "revolt against their leaders of treason" and he urged those in the homeland to begin by resisting attempts to force them into German labor service...
...Britain, against the certainty that now is the best time to hit Germany from the air. The Allies have an opportunity they may never have again. German victory in Russia and in the Middle East may soon release Germany's main air fleets for defense of the homeland, or for assaults on the Allies' priceless air base in Britain...