Word: patriotes
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...second thing Renault learned was that the home office could be wrong. He had the name and address of a patriot in Marseille who would be able to get him a radio operator for his secret transmitter. The patriot, as it turned out, was scandalized at the very idea. Renault had better luck near Bergerac, in the Dordogne, where his host was a small, salty squire, the father of eight, with a fine disdain for the conquerors. When, he asked, would Renault like to slip across into the German zone? After Renault replied "tomorrow," he realized that he was scared...
...Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg. . . . As a Christian gentleman, a thinker, a scholar, a diplomat, a patriot, he is unexcelled...
Fort Pitt is a stockaded outpost, threatened by Indians. Scoundrel DaSilva wants war with the Indians and a weak frontier (he is a fur trader). Patriot Cooper wants peace and a strong frontier (he is the stuff that the unborn U.S. is to be made of). DaSilva gets his war and it remains for Cooper to rescue Miss Goddard from the aborigines (Boris Karloff & friends...
...Bulgaria last week the Communist-dominated Government silenced democratic opposition by hanging Nikola Petkoff after his conviction on trumped-up treason charges. Petkoff, leader of the democratic Agrarian Party, was a patriot. He fought the Nazis and spent part of the war behind German barbed wire. After the Russians put the small Bulgarian Communist Party in power, Petkoff opposed the Communists led by the old Comintern agent, Georgi Dimitroff, hero of the Reichstag-fire trial...
...That is the hardest problem for Communists to analyze. It is very difficult to believe in any international ideal and still be a good patriot. But I certainly know I should fight for Italy. It would be a terrible thing...