Word: patriots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME, Feb. 6, p. 9, col. 3: "Longshoreman Harry Bridges, whom patrioteers have tried to get deported. . . ." Please, what do you mean by patrioteer? And when you tell me, will you say if you mean that such are all who wish to see Harry Bridges deported? If you tell me this, tell me, too, what has happened to our feeling for the fine word patriot, that in this country, and, so far as I know, only in this country, people are ashamed of it and so often give it the sneering inflexion ? I am touchy...
...Union. In a phrase reminiscent of Frenchman Jacques Deval's play Tovarich-which Adolf Hitler has seen three times-old General Denikin cried to an audience of fellow-exiles: "White or Red, our fatherland remains our fatherland. Whoever may aid Russia's enemies cannot call himself a patriot, no matter what ideological excuse he may use for taking money to fight his own people...
...Premier, a Wartime infantry captain, declared that he and all other veterans wanted "peace with Germany." "Have I ceased to be a patriot because I defended peace?'' he asked, and his supporters shot back a vociferous "No!" Denying the Leftist accusation that he had dictatorial ambitions, the Premier again rhetorically shouted: "Am I no longer a Republican because I insist upon respect for republican law and order...
...nominate for Saint of the Year Thomas Mann, expatriated German patriot and humane genius; or better still, Eduard Benes, who fought with gallantry and tenacity the fight of his own people and, in the long run, of all the peoples of the world...
Among the illiterate peasantry the Iron Guard made many friends. Wherever it became strong it built schools, churches and bridges, naming them after a certified Rumanian patriot or a Roman Emperor. Nor were the higher places neglected. Rumanian bureaucracy was dotted with Iron Guard members and probably still...