Word: underground
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seventh of the students is Polish born Benon Przybielski '51, whose father was killed in 1939 and the rest of his family, except one brother, sent to a concentration camp. The brother joined the underground in Warsaw, but Benon was sent to do farm work in Germany...
...William Foster and Eugene Dennis, U.E. Bosses James Matles and Julius Emspak and "our good friend Harry Bridges." He charged: "There evolved plans and policies to corrupt and destroy if possible the trade union movement in America. And if our country was engulfed in another war, they would go underground and undermine the people and this Government of ours...
Between better-than-average battle seenes and grave partisan conferences, the aristocrats are shown making merry, fleeing to Switzerland, flirting with German officers, aiding the underground, and worrying about gunfire's effect on their nerves. At least this rescues them from the black-and-white situation in which the rest of the cast finds itself...
...only one in Charles de Gaulle's postliberation entourage with spunk enough to argue against the stiff-backed general. Son of a devoutly Catholic, well-to-do insurance broker, Georges Bidault had sided with the Spanish Loyalists, denounced Munich and become a top executive in the French underground. Before he married in 1945, he seemed to have almost no private life. Said one of his friends: "If you saw a man sitting in the sun at a cafe with his legs sprawled out, drinking wine and reading La Croix, it could not be anyone but Bidault...
Communist forces, completing a 1,500-mile victory march since Mukden's capture almost a year ago, entered from the north. A million Cantonese carried on impassively while the Red underground among them emerged for jubilant street parades and dancing of the yangko...