Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bronze statue in Lafayette Square, opposite the White House in Washington, is the inscription : "And Freedom Shrieked As Kosciuszko Fell." Tadeusz Kosciuszko was a Polish patriot who fought beside George Washington to bring freedom and independence to America. Later he fought in Poland against the invasions of Czarist Russia...
Rebellious Albania might be the least of Il Duce's worries, but it was the most chronic. A people whose "nationalism does not whisper because their country is small," the Albanians had never accepted the Fascist conquest of 1939. Now patriot resistance, fanned by new hope, was mounting. It could be measured by Rome's frantic hunt for a popular puppet leader. For Prime Minister in Tirana Mussolini chose tricky, turncoat Ekrem Libohova, once ex-King Zog's Foreign Minister. This was Albania's fourth "government...
...Premier in Exile, General Wladslaw Sikorski, the cleavage with Russia was a personal tragedy. Opposition Poles in Britain and the U.S.* have attacked him ever since he defied Polish tradition and signed a Polish-Russian pact in July 1941, followed it with a friendship declaration in December 1941. A patriot, liberal enough to be anathema to rightist emigrés, Sikorski has showed great political courage in trying to deal with Russia. For a time, he succeeded so well that Stalin once called him the only Polish leader with whom the Kremlin could deal. But pressure inside & outside his Government...
...Shanghai's Hongkew Park, a Korean patriot threw a bomb at a review stand filled with Japanese officials. Shigemitsu (then Minister to China) lost a leg; Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, later Ambassador to Washington, lost...
Next day the Governor's speech was relegated to the background. Out came headlines, proclaiming "Patriot's Day Speaker Flays Communism." One article led off with the false indirect quotation that the chaplain "condemned an expediency which was muzzling those who realized that communism was as great a threat to democracy as is Nazism...