Word: patria
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...first acts of the democratic government that came to power in Bolivia's "lamppost revolution" of 1946 was to declare an amnesty for members of Razón de Patria, the ultra-nationalist military lodge behind the assassinated Dictator Gualberto Villaroel. Since then, the government has had plenty of reason to regret its generosity. In three years, RADEPA officers and their civilian supporters in the fascist Movement of Nationalist Revolution (M.N.R.) have pulled more than a dozen revolutionary attempts. Last week they tried another...
...agenda stands a spring concert featuring excerpts from Montoverdi's little-known opera, "II Ritorno d'Ullisse in Patria," and Pureell's "The Faery Queen." Plans will also be laid for periodic concerts of student compositions...
...Rossia, something of a seagoing refugee herself, has sailed under three flags in eight years. Built at Hamburg in 1938 as the German Patria, she was taken over by the Allies at Flensburg in May 1945, used as living quarters for a SHAEF mission, then became the British Empire Welland. In an allocation of tonnage between the Big Powers, she passed to Russia this year...
...with Tenor Jan Peerce, the Westminster Choir and the NBC Symphony Orchestra) made this movie debut, for patriotic motives, free of charge. Content: Verdi's Overture to La Forza del Destino and Hymn of the Nations, the latter with revisions and interpolations by Toscanini. (He changed Italia, patria mia-Italy, my fatherland-to Italia tradita-Italy, betrayed, and climaxed the piece with the Internationale and The Star-Spangled Banner...
...ripples on Flensburger Forde glittered in the bright sunlight as Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, last Führer of the Third Reich, marched stiffly up the gangplank of the Patria, an old German liner housing a SHAEF mission. His long blue coat whipped at his knees, and his aides followed him in single file...