Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...elegant greystone Embassy on Washington's 16th Street, Russian Ambassador Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff (pronounced Lit-VEEN-off) heard the seconds tick. Watching the dogwood bloom on the lawn, he could picture the Russian spring: no Russian, however far from his homeland, can forget the feathery pastels of white birch and oak, the woods alive with the calls of the zhavornok and the drozd, the heady smell of mushrooms and flowers sprouting in soil musty-damp from the winter's snow...
...which led to the sinking of the steamship Struma with the loss of seven hundred and fifty lives reveals in the most tragic way that appeasement still guides the British Colonial Office. These people had fled the Hitler terror in Rumania; they were seeking admission to the Jewish National Homeland. The refusal of the British to admit them was an infringement of the League Mandate under which England governs Palestine, a Mandate approved by the Congress of the United States. More than that, it was a denial of those principles of human justice for which the United Nations are waging...
...than Singapore. No enemy had even dared such an exploit since 1690, when the French Admiral Tourville defeated the British and the Dutch off Beachy Head and then triumphantly swept along the English coast. The humiliation was not distant; it took place in the Channel itself, named for the homeland, in the Strait named Dover...
Because Iturbi declared, during the Spanish Civil War, that his homeland needed "a strong man," he was picketed by U.S. leftists as a Fascist. Iturbi made his sympathies plain on last week's I am an American program...
...with the Free Government-in-Exile, there to plot further Commando raids. In Stavanger eleven Norwegians were executed, including Carl Oftedal, a doctor,Thomas Fjermestad, a bookkeeper, Georg Fjellberg, a smith. Said Free Norway's crack little U.S. news service, which has uncannily accurate underground contacts with the homeland: "[The charges are] believed to be espionage and sabotage...