Word: underground
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a while, Mathilde met a gaunt Frenchman named Pierre de Vomecourt, who also worked for the underground. He asked her to work with him. When he found out that she was playing a double game, she persuaded De Vomecourt that she had important information which the British should have. She wanted to get to England, she said, out of the Boche's reach. With some difficulty the British intelligence spirited Mathilde and De Vomecourt out of France, and La Chatte sat out the rest of the war in a British jail. One British operative said...
...still a large and tightly knit movement. Peru, a politically backward country, had no mass party to take its place. But Haya's future was something else. His own disciples had begun to criticize him. Nobody could forget that in the party's first long stretch underground (1936-45), the redoubtable chieftain had led his anti-Communist leftists from inside Peru without once being caught. But now, many Peruvians felt that it would be miraculous if he ever came back. Said an Aprista: "I don't think Haya killed Graña-but I believe...
When the Nazis invaded Yugoslavia, Father George was a Croatian organizer of Catholic youth groups. He promptly took off his clerical garb, went underground, and with many other young Christians, eventually joined Slovak partisans. Fighting side by side with Russians, they kept their religion under cover-celebrating Mass, and even holding retreats, in forests with lookouts posted...
...Spreads. According to Father George, Russians are cynical about the sincerity of their government's war-inspired toleration of the Russian Orthodox Church. He reports that even some of the Orthodox priests stay underground just in case the state once again begins to close the churches...
Thus a Roman Catholic priest made contact with a station of the underground within Russia. For six months after World War II, "Father George" traveled through the U.S.S.R. with Red army credentials, studying resistance to the Communist regime and especially the secret confederacy of Christians. What he found makes an exciting book, written in collaboration with magazine-writer Gretta Palmer and published this week as God's Underground (Appleton-Century-Crofts...