Word: patriots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thrillingly came through in the face of the direst subversive influences-and Author Buchan so obviously believed that he could and should-that to his Empire audience he and his heroes came to have a sort of Empire symbolism all their own. Coupled with his yeoman political and patriotic services, this gave Buchan a place on the list of Britain's public patriots not far down the line from Winston Churchill. As well indicated by their hearty welcome to George VI last summer, the Dominion is nothing if not patriotic. Hence the choice of Patriot Buchan for patriotic Canada...
...Mytyl's father, a poor woodcutter in the play, has become a Tyrolese patriot about to join Andreas Hofer against Napoleon Bonaparte...
...wait, perhaps several weeks, to testify against Miss Jones. "I cannot wait that long," blustered Otto Prignitz. "I must obey Führer Hitler and get back to Germany at once. It is obvious I am needed there." The judge decided to make sure that the alleged thief of Patriot Prignitz's cash should not go untried. He held the robbed man in $5,000 bail as a material witness. Otto Prignitz wailed: "This means my ruin. . . . Nobody in the whole Reich will believe my story of why I was delayed...
...British liners Highland Patriot and Avila Star both reported, upon their arrival in Rio de Janeiro last week, that they had been attacked unsuccessfully by submarines near the Canary Islands on their way out from England. The Canaries, off the African Coast, belong to Spain. British warships were reported looking there for a U-boat base or supply ship...
Neither police nor Army had much difficulty in identifying the holdup men as members of the outlawed Irish Republican Army, the band of Eire patriot-terrorists whose program is to sever the few remaining ties with Great Britain and unite Northern Ireland with Eire. Last week 16 of those accused of the robbery were caught, and about 700,000 rounds of the missing ammunition were found in various hideouts. Eire's Army and police were scared that the I. R. A., its fire power thus reinforced, would attempt a coup d'état either in Eire...