Word: loyal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basis for success is simply put: it is that every individual at that meeting be loyal to the spirit of the United Nations and dedicated to the principles of its charter. I can solemnly pledge to you here-and to all the men and women of the world who may hear or read my words-that those who represent the United States will strive to be thus loyal, thus dedicated...
...Communist, Leslie Rab, a character clearly modeled on onetime Hungarian Foreign Minister Laszlo Rajk, who was purged in 1949 as a Titoist. Rab is the great sinner unknowingly on his way to penance. For the second half of the novel, the good Christian and the still-loyal Communist stage a fascinating intellectual wrestling match for each other's minds and souls. Rab scoffs at the existence of God and His goodness: "Did God create man for misery, for eternal struggle, in order to enjoy his obsequious thanks for every crumb cast him, every small mercy?" Argues the priest...
...daily papers are full of it. Bad kids. Burglary. Rape. Murder. The kids run in gangs. The Scarlet Cavaliers. The Shining Knights. They manufacture pistols, carry switchknives and use them. They are loyal to nothing except the gang. They rarely tell on each other. The reason for all this might be larger than children. In feudal law everyone was responsible for something. Every, member of the family was responsible for every other member. In the village this same responsibility obtained. If a child committed a crime his whole family was affected, even punished, and even if his father and mother...
...scanned the whole letter, he asked, 'When shall we have an answer?' I replied tersely, 'We shall consider the letter.' The meeting was at an end." Tito knew that he had one power advantage that no other satellite had: a big Yugoslav army loyal to him, not Moscow...
...Germans invaded Yugoslavia in April 1941, Tito took to the hills. Stalin, still chummy with Adolf Hitler (the Nazi-Soviet pact stayed in force until June, when the Nazis invaded Russia), ordered the Yugoslav Communists to confine themselves to sabotage. During these first months, Serb Colonel Draja Mihailovich, loyal to the Mon archy, fought off the Nazis. Tito set up a rival guerrilla army, eventually had 150,000 men, enough to tie down 15 Axis divisions. He proved himself the most successful guerrilla commander of World War II. At first the Western Allies supported Mihailovich, but at Winston Churchill...