Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manstein admitted that he condoned executions of the wives of Russian partisan fighters as reprisals for attacks on German soldiers. But, he argued, the Russians themselves never adhered to any rules of war. "The shooting of women is not very nice," said Manstein. "But sometimes the partisan war did not make anything else possible . . . The [Russian] civilians used every form of illegal warfare possible-shooting in the back, wearing German uniforms, employing women and children as spies and poisoning the water supply...
Radcliffe's League for Democracy, the only non-partisan political group at the Annex, went out of existence at yesterday's student council meeting. The Council revoked the club's charter at the request of RLD president Elaine Tanner '50, who claimed that not enough girls had turned up at the re-organizational meeting last week to warrant rechartering...
Last spring the League received an extension of its Council charter until after election day. The group had declined in membership during pre-election campaigning, as many members joined partisan clubs. (The eight undergraduates who signed for RLD at Pay Day will have their dues returned...
...Brooklyn theater last week, 4,000 junior high school students booed Russia's Andrei Vishinsky and warmly cheered U.S. Delegate Warren Austin. Except for these partisan outbursts, the teen-agers found the long speeches and static drama of the specially arranged telecast of United Nations in Action (weekdays, 11 a.m. & 3 p.m., CBS-TV) neither so funny as Milton Berle nor so exciting as baseball. "Of course," one 14-year-old conceded, "baseball is more known, because it's older than the United Nations...
With his wife's help (he never mastered Japanese), Hearn translated dozens of legends and poems, composed scores of essays and sketches on Japanese life. In the essays prepared for the eyes of Western readers, he remained his adopted country's devoted partisan to the end. Loyally, he painted his adopted country as a peace-loving land menaced by the West. Wrote Hearn: "An evil dream comes oftentimes to those who love Japan: the fear that all her efforts are being directed, with desperate heroism, only to prepare the land for the sojourn of peoples older by centuries...