Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...party that thus threatened old Dev? He was a tall, dapper, 43-year-old lawyer who had spent his life in the Republican movement, bombing British armored cars while still a boy, commanding a brigade of the Irish Republican Army while still in his teens. A guerrilla, journalist and orator, he had been in jail often, studied law on the side. In 1937, still wanted by the police, he had succeeded in sitting for his law examinations at Dublin's University College and taking a degree with honors before making his getaway. He was Maud Gonne...
Balance Sheet. Two reports, issued the same day last week, show how fast guerrilla destruction is outracing U.S. reconstruction. One was a program report from AMAG (American Mission to Aid Greece). The other was a report from the Greek III Army Corps, tabulating guerrilla destruction during October in its area in northwestern Greece (roughly one-third of guerrilla-infested territory in Greece...
...Corps reported that in its area 83 guerrilla attacks were carried out on towns and villages, 218 houses, shops, schools and public utilities buildings were burned to the ground, 26 railway bridges were blown up, 8 road bridges destroyed, 11 locomotives and trains mined and destroyed, 193 villages looted, 6,000 animals stolen and several hundred tons of food stores plundered...
Perhaps the worst problem is the 300,000 refugees from guerrilla country. These peasants know that the Government has started the forced evacuation of a quarter-million civilians from the countryside because the Army cannot defend them, and carry out an offensive at the same time. And they wonder how they are going to live this winter crowded into mud huts, shanties and abandoned buildings on Government relief, which will provide them with less than a pound of bread and about 15? in cash a day. The huts in which they live, unlike the airfields, are not "winterized...
...ambassadorial reports had advocated economic aid to Greece. Last week it seemed to MacVeagh that the economic program would be far from enough. Real construction could hardly begin until guerrilla activity was contained. That might take a momentous decision by U.N. with the U.S. in the forefront...