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...Wollweber was one of the ringleaders in the mutiny of the German Imperial Navy after World War I. Later, according to Jan Valtin's Out of the Night, he was a potent force in the underground organization of the Comintern...
...Auto chases, abductions, disguises, false passports, the underground railway for refugees...
...first organized attempt to unite the spirit and forces of resistance. Symbols are strangely powerful in politics, and a symbol had been found for a future revolution against Fascism. If kept alive, V might come to stand, in Germany and all conquered countries, for a great underground movement against Naziism, for democracy's vast Column...
...field's "blue ground" (same as the geological formations of some of South Africa's famed mines) covers 44 acres, extends at least 200 feet underground. Chief difficulty in operating it: the cost, at-U.S. wage rates, of washing the 14,500,000 lb. of clay and rock it takes to extract a single pound of diamonds. Since the machine tool industry uses diamonds (world's hardest mineral) for cutting, this difficulty would be unimportant if control of the world's diamond supply, now tightly held by a British monopoly, should ever pass into Nazi...
...Damonte Taborda's newly formed equivalent of the Dies Committee staged a series of pre-dawn raids, seized files, pamphlets, maps, books of instruction on fifth-column activities, Nazi flags, radio sets and thirty Germans, including one Hein Froehling, who was supposed to be director of Nazi underground activities...