Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your reference without qualification to Italian Communism's partisans "who never surrendered the arms with which they fought the Germans" [TIME, April 19] is unfair to American and British leaders who early realized the potentialities for future trouble inherent in these Allied-sponsored guerrilla groups. Partisan disarmament was priority business for AMG in North Italy, particularly in Emilia (the eight provinces between the crest of the Apennines and the Po), whose military government I headed. The technique was interesting...
...Should they lash out at the main center of Arab strength in the hills north of Jerusalem, trying to destroy the Arab armies (which could be steadily reinforced from neighboring Arab states)? Or should the Jews take up a defensive posture on the coast and in Jerusalem, facing endless guerrilla attacks? The Jews' better organization, discipline and tactics had paid off in the early days of the battle for Palestine. But in the long run they knew they could hold on only if the Arabs wearied of fighting or started quarreling among themselves...
...time, Low was busy working on the cover story about Greek guerrilla chief Markos (TIME, April 5). So Mrs. Low who was with him in Athens, rushed to Prague to recoup their possessions. The following account of the difficulties she encountered has just reached us from Istanbul where the Lows are now located. It offers, I think, some interesting intelligence on the situation in Czechoslovakia...
Among the Communists were several armed, bloodthirsty women. Two of them entered the house of Eugenia Fotinopou-lou, who was six months pregnant. Her husband had been impressed into the work crews who were loading loot into rebel trucks. When the guerrilla women heard that Fotinopoulou had been "taken away," they decided that he was a "fascist" and they fired four shots into Eugenia's swollen belly. Fotinopoulou came back from his labors for the enemy to find his wife dying. "This happened to me," he said, "just as life was beginning to smile...
...more than a decade in the Vatican, Alcide de Gasperi returned to the world. During the war, he and his friends secretly began to organize, from Sturzo's old forces, the Christian Democratic Party. De Gasperi represented his party on the National Committee of Liberation, which fought a guerrilla war against the Germans; there he sat with Communists. At the 1946 elections, no one was more surprised than De Gasperi when his loose, ill-organized party polled 8,000,000 votes, and emerged as the largest in Italy. It seemed that a good many Italians wanted precisely what...