Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Brazil and eleven interned officers and men of the scuttleship Admiral Graf Spee disappeared from Montevideo. Still at Curaçao and Aruba in The Netherlands West Indies last week were a dozen vessels whose lot was particularly hard because the Dutch, gloomily expecting an attack on their homeland, are ill-disposed toward Nazis, are also afraid they might by way of sabotage set fire to the enormous quantities of oil stored in the islands by Royal Dutch Co. Nazi ships at Curaçao are now forced to anchor outside Willemstad's drawbridged harbor, at remote bays...
...boxed for anti-Semitism and studied architecture. As a nominal subject of the Tsar he fought (so his enemies later said) with the Russian Imperial Armies. As a descendant of an old German Baltic family, he became a Pan-German and returned, after World War I, to his "spiritual homeland...
Japan's Army has had such an extended jamboree on the vast continent of China that it has forgotten how insular the little homeland is. Last week, after six sudden setbacks, Japan's puzzled militarists were forced to recollect...
...note of genuine desperation. "This is no potato war," said Herr Goebbels, "but will bring a decision on our future. . . . We will either relinquish our position as a united people and a big power or win. . . . Germany is fighting a totalitarian war, calling on both the front and the homeland, if not for the same sacrifices, then for the same national duty. In this war we are fighting for bare existence...