Word: underground
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President I looked up an old friend of mine to see whether he could brief me on the anti-government side of Paraguay's political situation. We talked for a while and, to prove his points, he promised to put me in touch with the underground...
...active members of the Paraguayan underground, the girl had assembled all the documents, lists of political prisoners, etc. that I needed for my story. Then, she said that if I were willing to go to Asunción jail and see for myself, she would arrange it for me and advise some of the prisoners that I could be trusted...
...That evening a driver called for me at the hotel to take me to meet the leader of the underground, a man well-known to the police, who have yet to catch him. After doubling around the city three or four times we drew up to an old ramshackle house on the edge of town...
Moscow had raised Poland's bald-domed Wladislaw Gomulka from the Communist underground to a place of power. Last week, through Poland's Communist Party (called the Polish Workers' Party), Moscow slapped him down. The reason: Gomulka, like Yugoslavia's Tito, had become a dangerous "nationalist...
...sins Gomulka was deprived of his job as party secretary general. Into the secretaryship Moscow put Poland's President Boleslaw Bierut, another underground graduate who had pretended since his emergence in 1945 that he was aloof from party influences...