Word: patriotes
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...Hope), International Brigade air squadron leader in the Spanish Civil War, tank corps veteran of the 1940 Battle of France, reported killed by the Nazis, turned up again as leader of 1,000 Maquis in the Limoges district. He had been captured by the Gestapo, freed by a patriot raid, and served as a liaison officer between the F.F.I, and the British...
...representatives of China's culture, both U.S.-edu-cated, were present at the dedication. Ex-officio director of China House, as director of the China Institute, is Dr. Meng Chih, 44, onetime student at North Carolina's Davidson College and a Columbia A.M. An astute and affable patriot and educator, Dr. Meng is a descendant of China's great philosopher of democracy. Mencius (372-289 [?] B.C.). As honorary president of China Institute, the speech of acceptance at the dedication was made by famed Dr. H. H. Kung (A.B. Oberlin; A.M. Yale), Vice Premier and Finance Minister...
...President Sarmiento himself described Uruguay's General Jose Fructuoso Rivera; "[He] began [by] making war upon the government as an outlaw; afterwards he waged war upon the outlaws as a government officer; next upon the King [of Portugal] as a patriot; and later upon the patriots as a peasant; upon the Argentines as a Brazilian chieftain; and upon the Brazilians as an Argentine general; upon [Outlaw] Lavalleja as President; upon President Oribe as a proscribed chieftain; and finally upon [Oribe's] ally as a general of Uruguay...
Everywhere French patriot armies were rising, to fight the invader in his rear, to help Allied air fleets paralyze his movements. General Brereton's airborne army of 250,000 men was still a hovering menace that might swoop to cut any line of retreat anywhere. It could be used to speed the juncture of the Seventh Army in Provence with the forces before Paris. It might be dropped beyond Paris to slash the German escape route-or be set down in Germany beyond the Belfort Gap to speed an advance into Germany at the Swiss-border hinge...
...pause in front of Warsaw left the Polish partisans, who had risen up against the Germans in the city, in a desperate fix.The underground leader, General Bor, complained that Red artillery had not been heard on the Warsaw approaches since Aug. 3. Unless help arrived soon, he said, his patriot forces would be "totally exterminated." The Germans were attacking with planes and tanks; the partisans had no artillery...