Word: patriot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...land lassie, Helen Mary (Glynis Johns), but hesitates to marry her as long as he is fighting the English. Against them he wages a brilliant guerrilla war that finally discredits the British Secretary of State for Scotland, the cruel Duke of Montrose (Michael Gough), and brings a true Scottish patriot, the Duke of Argyll (James Robertson Justice) back to power. In the end, Rob, his bagpiper and his sword-squire strut through London Town to get their pardon of King George I of England...
Died. Maria d'Annunzio, Princess of Monte Nevoso, 94, widow of Italy's famed Poet-Patriot Gabriele (Il Fuoco} d'Annunzio; in Gardone Riviera, Italy...
...troops in a two-year battle to victory. His hatred of whites, already strong, grew violent. To make his flag, he tore out the white from a French tricolor. When he came to declare in dependence on Jan. 1, 1804, the illiterate Dessalines turned the task over to a patriot who declaimed that "to write the Act of Independence, we need the skin of a white man for parchment, his skull for an inkwell, his blood for ink, and a bayonet for a pen!" Dessalines made himself Emperor and slaughtered or exiled almost every white in Haiti...
Government by Calculation. Churchill's personal relations with Stalin remained friendly, even affable, to the end, and he never ceased to praise Stalin as a great war leader. But Churchill was outraged by the Russian betrayal of the patriot Warsaw Poles under General Bor-urged to rise by the Red radio, and then methodically slaughtered by the Germans while the Red army halted contemplatively for weeks just a few miles away...
Filipinos had a chance to vote their minds without fear of revenge or having their votes disqualified. The Filipinos made up their own minds. No man since the great Filipino patriot. Jose Rizal, has so captured the Filipino fancy and fired the Filipino imagination as the rugged (5 ft. 11 in., 170 Ibs.) man from Zambales. He displays emotions and utters words which might seem corny and insincere in more sophisticated men. In more than 1.500 villages and cities, he laughed, ate, mingled with and talked to the voters. "I love to shake the hands-the dirty hands -with...