Word: underground
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Entertainment Bureau, a division of the Student Employment Office in Weld Hall, farms out magicians, guitarists, pianists, bagpipers, glass blowers, dance orchestras, and experts on the Greek underground to clubs, churches, or schools in Greater Boston. There is no booking charge made to either employer or employee...
Perhaps the most dramatic account of student cooperation has come from Spain, where the 24-year-old Federal Union of Spanish Students has gone underground and practises resistance to the France regime...
...F.U.S.S. adds, "Fifteen years ago the record achieved by the (Union) would have enabled us to answer your questions with pride. . . . Nowadays our situation is totally changed; our organization in Spain can only carry out its work in the underground under the continuos threat of persecution; in exile, it is too scattered all over three continents...
...other hand we might have been satisfied if the IUS, which was supposed to be a 'progressive, antifascist, democratic organization' would have helped the Spanish students in their underground struggle against Franco...
...political maelstrom, personal lives veer crazily. In the underground days, for instance, Major Walker makes the Greek cause his own. At first, he disapproves of the stern British tactics against he Communist-liberal coalition, ELAS. He tries to argue with his superiors ("What are you after," a Brigadier asks, "a Greek army that reads the Statesman and Nation?"). But the major slowly suppresses his disapproval, just as he suppresses his feeling for Nitsa, the Greek girl who has worked beside him in the underground. As the civil war bleeds Greece, Walker's ife begins to seem flat and inadequate...