Word: underground
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loose in Paris just after the German conquest. She was young, attractive, divorced, and she found it all too easy to have a good time. An ex-captain of the Polish army got her into the Réseau Interallié, an important network of the Franco-British underground. This Pole, a handsome man named Roman Czerniawsky, had been an intelligence officer. With Mathilde's brilliant help, he was soon feeding the British war office valuable information on the German order of battle. Mathilde was the network's cryptographer. Her fervently admiring comrades called her La Chatte...
...little notebook, Mathilde had the names and addresses of 35 comrades in the underground. Solicitously, she accompanied her new German lover on his rounds as he picked up the 35. Most were sent to Buchenwald; only 14 ever got back to France...
Married. Harry Amos Bullis, 58, chairman of the board of General Mills, Inc.; and Polish Countess Maria Smorczewska, 54, who was put into a Nazi concentration camp during the war for underground activities; he for the second time (his first wife died in 1947), she for the third; in Minneapolis...
...Look here," boasted Boris, "I've been to Moscow three times. I've been a party member for 26 years and I've read every word that Karl Marx ever wrote." "That's nothing," crowed Nikolai, "I was a Resistance leader. I fought in the underground. I have a signed letter from Lenin, and I've been a party member since the day I was born...
Round-faced Robert B. Jung, 34, the founder of Good News, is a Berlin-born Czech, a veteran of the anti-Hitler underground. He is now U.S. correspondent for Zurich's daily Die Tat, the weekly Die Weltwoche, and his own European feature agency, Dukas. His helper for Vol. i, No. i, was Correspondent Hans Steinitz of the Bern daily Der Bund. They timed their maiden issue to meet Mrs. Jung on her arrival from a European trip. She had wed her husband under protest last spring, feeling that journalism was "all dissension, fear and hate," and Jung...