Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months ago South Korea, bedeviled by guerrilla raids, galloping inflation and the daily threat of invasion from the north, looked like a candidate for the same mortuary as Nationalist China. Now the Republic of Korea looks more like a country on its way to healthy survival...
Most observers now rate the 100,000-man South Korean army as the best of its size in Asia. Its fast-moving columns have mopped up all but a few of the Communist guerrilla bands. And no one now believes that the Russian-trained North Korean army could pull off a quick, successful invasion of the South without heavy reinforcements. Said a Korean private manning a foxhole along the 38th parallel last week: "We expect war to come. But we aren't afraid. For every round they send over, we'll send two back...
...rugged hit & run fighting in forest and swamp terrain well suited for guerrilla tactics. By day the French control about half the countryside; and if they want to, they can penetrate where they will, though ambush takes its toll. At night, however, the French draw into their forts and garrisoned centers. Then Ho Chi Minh's men steal forth, terrorize peasants, collect taxes (two-fifths of a farmer's rice harvest), and run the countryside almost everywhere...
...enlisted in the Red "people's police" and entrusted with "responsible duties." The FDJ school at Bogensee, near Berlin, is planning a "strategic seminar" for the "pre-military and revolutionary training" of 16-to 18-year-olds. Sizable contingents of FDJ members are already being schooled in guerrilla warfare. Western observers believe that, in the near future, all physically fit youngsters will have to complete a two-month course of police training, as a prelude to a general, semimilitary conscription. FDJ members sing political propaganda, the way American youngsters sing football songs. FDJ people's police units, marching...
Escape to Adventure, by Fitzroy Maclean. A World War II brigadier and Tory M.P. describes his prewar prowling in Russia, his commando adventures in the North African desert and his guerrilla life with Tito in one of the best personal-adventure books in a long while (TIME...