Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Well might Britain be uneasy, knowing Mohammed Mahmoud Pasha's traits. He was appealed to some time ago by the Egyptian Tourist Development Association along these lines: "The tourists dislike riots. As you are an Egyptian patriot, will you not keep your Greenshirts from rioting during the tourist season?" Mahmoud agreed. Since then Cairo's tourist season has been almost completely free of riots, but the new Premier's henchmen have redoubled their efforts in other ways. This patriotic restraint has not affected the Fascistic zealotry of the new Premier and his followers, best exemplified by some...
Satisfaction was discreetly shown at the British Foreign Office in London last week as dispatches from Shanghai urgently warned that its Japanese conquerors were about to stage a blatant "Victory Parade," with chances 10-to-1 in favor of some aggrieved Chinese patriot hurling a bomb...
...Chinese policeman shot dead a man who was, said the police marksman, the man who threw the grenade. At first he was called a Korean, then a Chinese. His name did not come out last week. Before the parade could reform there occurred another, equally fatalistic demonstration. A Chinese patriot, who had watched the bomb explode, gave a shrill cry: "Long live the Kuomintang!" (Government Party), and committed suicide by leaping off the top of a tall building...
Underlying purpose of Cleopatra's maneuvers, avers Ludwig, was to preserve her honor as patriot, mother, loving wife. In order to make this point, he rejects the orthodox version: that she made a deal with Octavian to assassinate Antony, tricked him into suicide, committed suicide herself only when her planned seduction of Octavian did not work...
...Regent's Park Pond a middle-aged patriot was placidly rowing a boat when the silence began, tried to stand upright in his skiff and splashed overboard. Coming to the surface he stood waist-deep in muck and cold water, head bowed for 90 seconds before squishing ashore...