Word: patriotes
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Best guess: the British had heard that atavistic instincts had again got the best of many an Ethiop patriot. So Haile Selassie was asked to try to stop it. For if the conquest of Ethiopia were accompanied by numerous atrocities, victory would turn into a moral defeat...
...character of Prince Paul of Yugoslavia has been a subject of controversy for years. His friends said he was a patriot, ambitious only to turn a united kingdom over to his nephew at the end of his regency. These people said his appeasement of Yugoslavia's Croat minority was directed toward that end. His enemies said he was a weakling, prodded by his wife, Princess Olga of Greece (whose sister is Britain's Duchess of Kent), into immense ambitions, even the ambition to rule all the Slavs, including the Russians. These people said Hitler played on Prince Paul...
...Church swung into action. Bishop Nicholai of Belgrade preached a sermon against capitulation. Patriarch Gavrilo Dozitch of the Serbian Orthodox Church went to the White Palace to warn Prince Paul against giving the Germans power over the Church. Bishop Valerian Pribichevitch, brother of the late great Patriot Svetozar Pribichevitch, telegraphed his resignation to the Regent; it would become effective when Yugoslavia signed with Germany...
Subjects of the speeches ranged from excerpts out of Sir Walter Raleigh's "The History of the World" to a selection from John Dos Passos' "U.S.A." Lipson recited from "Statement to the Court on Being Convicted of Treason" by Sir Roger Casement, an Irish patriot who was hanged during the last war, and Thayer chose parts of Stephen Vincent Benet's "Notes to Be Left on a Cornerstone." Charles took selections from a speech of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., while Henry quoted a section of Melville's "Moby Dick." Nichols, the first speaker, used T. S. Eliot's poem, "Coriolan...
...Currently the Institute boys claim to have boycotted a young instructor who had turned out to be a Harvard A.B. Every student organization joins in propaganda for the one-way scrap; popular professors begin their courses with a stock Harvard joke; and the Freshman banquet gives rousing cheers for patriot Thomas Amasa Walker, "the guy that kept us from joining up with Harvard...