Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have read in TIME many of the reports these correspondents have cabled back across the Atlantic-stories like those about the snipers who almost got General De Gaulle-about the foot-high hats and orange-sized earrings Parisiennes were wearing to keep up morale-about the French girl patriot who cried out against shaving the heads of women collaborationists - and many others, contributing all sorts of on-the-spot details to the news now flowing to our editors out of the French capital. And perhaps future stories like these will have added interest if I pass...
...Hope), International Brigade air squadron leader in the Spanish Civil War, tank corps veteran of the 1940 Battle of France, reported killed by the Nazis, turned up again as leader of 1,000 Maquis in the Limoges district. He had been captured by the Gestapo, freed by a patriot raid, and served as a liaison officer between the F.F.I, and the British...
...Paris, 7,000 alleged collaborators were in prisons or concentration camps which had just been emptied of their patriot prisoners...
...representatives of China's culture, both U.S.-edu-cated, were present at the dedication. Ex-officio director of China House, as director of the China Institute, is Dr. Meng Chih, 44, onetime student at North Carolina's Davidson College and a Columbia A.M. An astute and affable patriot and educator, Dr. Meng is a descendant of China's great philosopher of democracy. Mencius (372-289 [?] B.C.). As honorary president of China Institute, the speech of acceptance at the dedication was made by famed Dr. H. H. Kung (A.B. Oberlin; A.M. Yale), Vice Premier and Finance Minister...
...President Sarmiento himself described Uruguay's General Jose Fructuoso Rivera; "[He] began [by] making war upon the government as an outlaw; afterwards he waged war upon the outlaws as a government officer; next upon the King [of Portugal] as a patriot; and later upon the patriots as a peasant; upon the Argentines as a Brazilian chieftain; and upon the Brazilians as an Argentine general; upon [Outlaw] Lavalleja as President; upon President Oribe as a proscribed chieftain; and finally upon [Oribe's] ally as a general of Uruguay...