Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...revolters to penal servitude, the imprisonment of 23, the internment of 1,841. Later, in London, the best known of the Easter Week conspirators, Sir Roger Casement, died on the gallows, despite the pleas of Pope Benedict XV and the U. S. Senate. British civil servant turned Irish patriot, Sir Roger had been arrested on the Irish coast only a few hours after landing from a German submarine. His trial was in the glorious tradition; before a British judge and jury he argued Ireland's case against England fully as eloquently as had young Robert Emmet, the heroic Protestant...
...After that daring supporters smuggled the "President" out of jail, and the Irish "secret service" of Michael Collins, also a veteran of the Easter Rebellion, managed to get him on a ship to the U. S., long fertile ground for Irish nationalism. There he did what many another Irish patriot had done before-raised money and sympathy for the Irish cause...
...Well aware of the very possible possibility of being assassinated by some Chinese patriot, Mr. Wang Ching-wei, presumably with an uncomfortable feeling in the pit of his stomach, set out last week from Shanghai to become Japan's puppet Chinese Premier in famed Nanking, where 27 months ago Japanese troops broke discipline and committed modern history's greatest mass rape (TIME...
...overlooked influence on Wilde's career was his mother, from whom Oscar apparently inherited more than his big, undulant frame. Massive-headed Lady Wilde, who claimed descent from Dante, wrote poetry under the name Speranza, hot-headed Irish patriot propaganda under the name John Fenshawe Ellis. When her hard-drinking, ugly doctor-husband got mixed up in sex scandals, she either denounced the girl or paid no attention. (Dr. Wilde, knighted nine months before his worse scandal, left a family in every farmhouse, said G. B. Shaw.) Grieved that Oscar was not a girl (he looked, said a visitor...
...Washington, Patriot Rainer quickly took charge. She brought her own director, German-born Erwin Piscator ("The Belasco of Berlin"), from Manhattan...