Word: patriote
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago this Finnish patriot informed the League of Nations Council that "Good Neighbor" Russia was guilty of having "attacked not only frontier positions, but also open towns of Finland, sowing death and destruction." He asked the League to "take all necessary measures to check the aggression...
...North China death came to the old fox who was for many months Japan's greatest hope as a potential puppet-Marshal Wu Pei-fu, jovial poet, patriot, warlord. The Marshal died after an operation for an infected tooth. For a long time he led the Japanese to believe he would take the job they offered, but when the time came for his formal acceptance (at a party to which foreign correspondents were invited), he said to the Japanese, in effect: I shall become a puppet on the day when you little men go back to your little islands...
...Consulting Mining Engineer, West Coast Patriot Evans should know whereof he speaks. TIME merely reported 1) President Roosevelt's proposal, 2) East Coast Steelpatriots' understandable objections...
Moslem Jinnah claims that he is a patriot. Close to his heart, he says, is Indian freedom from Britain. And yet his League was the one important political group to endorse the British White Paper of last month deferring dominion status until after the war. His reasons are partly political, partly religious. He is a minority-leader, who wants both to curry favor with Britain and to avoid a "freedom" in which Moslems are bound to worse enemies than the British...
...cannot save Finland. Specifically, we cannot save Finland by wiping up the floor with Russia's American apologists, the Communists. Already, however, the witch-hunt is in full swing, with that eminent Finnish patriot, Martin Dies, leading the pack. American radicalism is neither a coherent philosophy nor a unified political movement. There is not even a united front. Communists and Socialists, Lovestoneites and Trotskyites are engaged in endless guerilla warfare. Because one section of the radical movement supports Stalin, the whole liberal and radical melange is threatened by a tidal wave of reaction...