Word: motherland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hanging to a tree the impaled corpse of an executed man in his white gown and tall cap adorned with a red cross, his hands bound." Towards the virtuous end of his life Poll finds a new pal-"One Lizárdi . . . a sorry writer in your motherland, known to the public as 'the Mexican Thinker.' " Dying, he entrusts Thinker Lizárdi with his story. The Thinker adds his own account of Poll's pathetic death...
While roundly slating the Motherland for its handling of the war, while turning ever more hopeful eyes to Washington, Australia has nevertheless bent her back to the Empire effort, making guns, mortars, howitzers, shells, planes, engines, parachutes, corvettes and destroyers in quantity surprising for a wool-growing country of 7,000,000. Yet, as always when the storm breaks at home, there was still more slack to be taken up, and Australia gave a mighty heave...
...morning of May 10, 1940, the scrubbed, immaculate city of Bandung, on a Java plateau, seemed unwarily peaceful. Halfway around the world, before dawn in Europe, the Army of the motherland was reeling from the first sudden assault of the German. But that morning in the white-stoned General Headquarters build ing of The Netherlands East Indies in Bandung -there was a cooling breeze, and negligent ease...
Like every other youngster at the Royal Military Academy at Breda, in the motherland, Cadet Hein ter Poorten had to make a choice before he entered. He had to decide where he would serve, and stick to his choice. He chose The Netherlands East Indies, went to his first post in Java rarely well-equipped. He was not only an artillery specialist. He was also an airman. After winning an international balloon race in Germany, he learned to fly an airplane in 1911, was one of the world's earliest military aviators...
Perhaps a sense that something was going wrong with his writing, as much as his loyalty to his foster motherland, prompted MacNeice to return to England and the war. Readers of his book will feel glad that he went. Armageddon seems just what a divine doctor would prescribe for the author of Poems 1925-1940. Armageddon-or Siloam...