Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Jacques Thibaud, 72, famed French violin virtuoso; in an airline crash near Barcelonnette in the French Alps. Ardent Patriot Thibaud fought as an infantryman in World War I, and before and during World War II turned down all offers to play in Hitler's Germany. In 1947, still spry and healthy, he made his last U.S. appearance with the New York Philharmonic, devoted most of his last years to encouraging a new generation of young violinists and pianists...
...Basil, a jovial, able daredevil, was shot down in France in World War II, escaped by knocking out three German guards, walked and cycled across France in workman's clothes, watched Hitler enter Paris, in all was captured three times, escaped three times. Once, posing as an Irish patriot, he was challenged to speak Gaelic, fooled the Germans by a flood of Urdu, which he had learned in India. Back in combat, Embry took on a series of missions, once dive-bombed the door of a Nazi headquarters in Copenhagen to free imprisoned Danish resistance leaders...
...Dwight Eisenhower's desk, a few days before the decisive break at Panmunjom, came a powerful letter from Korea's President Syngman Rhee. The doughty old patriot objected strenuously to the latest U.S. truce plan, on which his government had not been consulted (see INTERNATIONAL). His country's hope of unity and its future safety, he warned, were imperiled; rather than accept the armistice, he vowed to lead his people in a lone fight against the Communists and in defiance...
...Communists in a secret session last week. But his real complaint was as old as the truce talks themselves. Rhee's foreign minister, Pyun Yung Tai, summed it up: "We cannot accept any premise that leaves Korea divided and makes North Korea a Chinese colony." For decades Patriot Rhee and his followers have dreamed of, planned, suffered torture and exile for an independent and unified Korea. Now, a few miles away from his wistaria-covered terrace, U.N. negotiators were bargaining that dream away in the name of peace. What made Rhee doubly angry was that...
...ruthless avenger. Cinemagoers who saw Brando in The Men and A Streetcar Named Desire may be surprised to hear him, minus his slurring Stanley Kowalski speech mannerisms, clearly enunciating the famous, rabble-rousing funeral oration. Less clear in his performance is that mercurial combination of demagogue and patriot, of force and "quick spirit" that is Antony's character. But Brando's characterization is more than competent, and his smouldering, sullen personality adds excitement to a crucial role...