Word: patriotics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Papers throughout the U.S. featured his "secret report" that a young Korean patriot had shot and slightly wounded Japanese Premier Hideki Tojo on June 17. The would-be assassin's second shot went wild, but seriously wounded onetime Premier Koki Hirota. As Tojo was carried to the hospital with a wound "under the left armpit," the patriot, whose name was Park Soowon, was shot full of holes by Japanese police, who in the process brought down the Japanese ace, Major Yuzo Fujita, and two Japanese photographers. Tokyo police succeeded in rounding up go-odd members of a Korean terrorist...
Scientist in Khaki. McNaughton is both a scientist and a soldier, and many Canadians today consider him their leading technician, patriot and planner. He is in this respect a rare citizen of his country and his time, a soldier whose sense of life and democracy is formed and rounded, a man of learning and conscience who knows for what he fights...
Elsewhere in old Yugoslavia at least six smaller Axis-surrounded islands carry on the struggle: 1) in the mountains behind Split, bands of Croats fight the Italians; 2) farther north, around Delnice, other Croats strike hard & often at Italian garrisons near Fiume; 3) eastward on the Croat plain, patriot guerrillas are so active that the Germans have acknowledged the necessity of sending flotillas down the Danube to fight them; 4) in the Croat forests, an underground peasant organization, Zeleni Kadar (Green Quarters), resists both the Germans and their puppet terrorist, Ante Pavelich; 5) Slovenes in the farthest northern section resist...
...Patriot, adventurer and scalawag, McGuinness has run rum into the U.S., guns into Ireland for the I.R.A. and into Morocco for the Riffs. In the days of the Trouble he rescued Frank Carty, now government whip, from Londonderry jail, later accompanied Admiral Byrd to the South Pole...
...very much alive again, reincarnate in patriot guise and touring the country under the usual impeccable auspices with a rousing pageant called You Can Defend America. Some 50 regular members of Dr. Buch-man's troupe, aided by local volunteers in the mob scenes, last week put on four New Jersey performances of You Can Defend America-two in Newark, one each in Trenton and Kearny. The long and notable list of sponsors was headed by Governor & Mrs. Charles Edison. Dr. Buchman and the cast were busy as beavers between shows, explaining the principles of Moral Re-Armament...