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...found out that he was a partisan. . . . There were 33 men in Baidek's detachment, ununiformed, heavily armed and determined, roaming over the entire region between Bryansk, Orel and Tula, blowing up bridges, hunting down small groups of Germans, smashing trucks and ambushing artillery. . . . In one operation they freed 200 Russian prisoners. ... Of these 33 guerrillas, 19 survived, seven disappeared, four were killed in battle and three were hanged by the Germans...
...frozen (it was 60 below zero), and with a village "a handful of gravel" beneath them, Dutertre sighted six enemy planes a quarter of a mile, ten seconds, below, and these planes swept upward. With an effort which at that altitude left him gently fainting. Saint-Exupéry freed the frozen rudder and lost his enemies...
...voice questioned whether Ethiopia had really been freed. Said Lord Davies carefully: "The agreement . . . strikes some as a hard bargain. ... So long as Abyssinia is bound down by some of the clauses, it cannot be described as free and independent...
...books are better suited than this one (written at the request of the Venezuelan Government) to help North Americans to understand Latin Americans. Simon Bolivar freed almost a third of South America in the name of democracy. He was driven out as a dictator when he tried to give orderly government to the region he had freed. His was the pioneer vision of Latin-American unity and hemispheric solidarity. (He was never able to achieve either.) Both his stupendous successes and his stupendous failures shed light on much that Americans find strange in the problems of Latin-American democracy...
...Dutch airmen worked well together and with the surface fleet. By concentrating first on Jap planes and naval vessels, the bombers freed Admiral Hart's warships to knock off the transports like so many ducks...