Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the war, patriot owners took over the abandoned Tory homes, and a distinguished lot they were. One was Nathaniel Tracy, who had made a fortune off privateering. Another was Elbridge Gerry of mander fame. And, although H. W. Longfellow once lived along Brattle Street, the situation has not really changed. Of late, Al Capp has resided in this area...
...having once belonged to the Communist Party, he is immediately a social outcast, no matter what the reasons for his membership, or his severance, unless, of course, he turns into a Louis Budenz and "rats" on others who are members of the party. In the latter situation, our erstwhile patriot becomes a national hero. If our witness invokes the Fifth Amendment, he is then automatically found guilty-by his silence ... If he claims he is not, or has not . . . been associated with any organization ... the shadow of doubt lies in the minds of those who know he was a witness...
...Portland, Ore., and was a member of the Japanese delegation to the 1919 Paris Peace Conference in Versailles. As Minister to China (1931-33), Shigemitsu unaffectedly supported the Japanese invasions. His specious argument: "China is not properly a nation or a state." One day in Shanghai, a Korean patriot hurled a homemade grenade at a group of Japanese officials, and Mamoru Shigemitsu lost...
...trigger real trouble in Northern Ireland. But it was doubtful whether Costello, who presides over a coalition government, is strong enough to do what De Valera had done. In Costello's Cabinet there are men who agree with ex-Foreign Minister Sean MacBride (son of the late famed Patriot Maud Gonne, and himself an old I.R.A. man) who said: "While the I.R.A. voices the national sentiment of the people, no Irish government would place itself in the position of fighting...
...Moscow. Ho has said that he will negotiate for elections only with the French and not with South Viet Nam's Premier Ngo Din Diem, whose government did not sign the Geneva Agreements. Ho, who fought the seven year Indo-China war in the guise of a local patriot eager to throw out French colonialism, now wants the French around to help him take over South Viet...