Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lieutenant,' b Denis Fodor, is a humorous tale. It mixes the tensions og guerrilla fighting in the mountains of Greece with the comedy that is in the pointlessness and incongruity of war. The Government's peasant soldiers are dupes not because they are going to be killed, but because their officers intend to bring them back safely without having fought a battle, and the war turns out to be a great practical joke, on which the Americans who are giving the Greeks their weapons are also victims. Fodor writes so well and develops his plot with such quiet skill that...
Last week there were signs that the Greeks were ready to move in a spring offensive against Markos. In Athens, the staff of burly, battlewise Lieut. General James A. Van Fleet, chief U.S. military adviser to Greece, has been working out plans for an offensive against the Communist-led guerrillas. Hailing the Pieria action as "a splendid victory," Van Fleet was showing a knack for getting action out of reluctant guerrilla hunters...
...strange but vigorous aviary includes other breeds. Some are "slavo-phones," Slavic-speaking people of Macedonia lured by Communist promises of an autonomous Macedonia. Some are simply bandits. More & more new "recruits" are conscripts, shanghaied into the guerrilla forces by raids into their villages...
...zone. Exasperated, the U.S. finally decided to schedule for May an election of its own in Korea's U.S.-occupied southern half. The Communist radio in northern Korea promptly denounced this as an imperialist plot to split Korea, called for financial contributions to support a "merciless and fierce" guerrilla campaign against the Americans. "This way," said one Communist broadcast, "the blood-boiling, brotherly sympathy and devotion of the people of North Korea ... is blooming...
Ulatistas had plenty of fight. "Nada nos atajard!" (Nothing will stop us!) screamed their mountain radio. Their leader, Planter Figueres, predicted the opening of new guerrilla fronts. Left to themselves, the rebels might win. But with Nicaragua behind the faltering government forces, and the Guatemalans doing their bit for the opposition, it looked as though Costa Rica, which Peru's Haya de la Torre had called "the Czechoslovakia of the Western Hemisphere," might instead become an international battleground on the pattern of civil-war Spain...