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...British and Greek staff officers have traveled by secret routes to confer with Greek guerrilla and patriot leaders under the very noses of Axis troops...
...timers" number, featuring some grizzled, winning atavists from World War I's Yip Yip and climaxing in sad-face Patriot Irving Berlin's almost voiceless, endearing rendition of O How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning...
...veering away from Giraud. He decided to switch sides. He approached an influential colonial family with contacts in the De Gaullist camp. A plan was devised. Peyrouton would send a letter of resignation to De Gaulle, who would accept, give Peyrouton an army commission. Later, his good faith and patriot ism established, Peyrouton would be returned to civil office...
...bronze statue in Lafayette Square, opposite the White House in Washington, is the inscription : "And Freedom Shrieked As Kosciuszko Fell." Tadeusz Kosciuszko was a Polish patriot who fought beside George Washington to bring freedom and independence to America. Later he fought in Poland against the invasions of Czarist Russia...
Rebellious Albania might be the least of Il Duce's worries, but it was the most chronic. A people whose "nationalism does not whisper because their country is small," the Albanians had never accepted the Fascist conquest of 1939. Now patriot resistance, fanned by new hope, was mounting. It could be measured by Rome's frantic hunt for a popular puppet leader. For Prime Minister in Tirana Mussolini chose tricky, turncoat Ekrem Libohova, once ex-King Zog's Foreign Minister. This was Albania's fourth "government...