Word: anti-nazi
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...have chosen a life of comfort. Instead, he gave his patrimony to charity and took the vows of the Capuchin order. In 1938, when his health broke after eight years in the monastery at Crest, he moved to a parish in Grenoble. Eventually, he became a leader of the anti-Nazi Resistance in eastern France, using many aliases including the one that stuck: Abbé Pierre. Among other exploits, he carried Charles de Gaulle's ailing brother Jacques across the frontier to safety in Switzerland. Later he himself was smuggled into Algeria in a mail sack, carrying a plea...
Given the risks involved, Ionesco's outspokenness is impressive. "He never really worried about being called a reactionary by the leftists," remarks Gaetan. "As he himself once said, 'I wasn't afraid of their calling me Bolshevik in the 1940's when I was anti-Nazi, so I'm not going to be now because I'm anti-Marxist...
...heart ailment; in Los Angeles. Brash yet amiable, Braden was a spokesman for democratic liberties in the Western Hemisphere, ever on the crusade against dictatorship. In 1940, as Ambassador to Colombia, he managed the firing of pro-Nazi pilots who endangered the Panama Canal. As fervently anti-Communist as he was anti-Nazi, Braden later took a firm cold war stance, calling for a U.S. invasion of Cuba...
...intelligence career started during World War II with the Office of Strategic Services. Two Frenchmen and I went into France to help organize, arm and supply the Maquis [France's anti-Nazi Resistance fighters]. I also went up to [Nazi-occupied] Norway with a small team. We operated on our own up in the hills, coming down to blow up railroad lines...
...laughable, since such worthies as Anne Bancroft, Gig Young and Burgess Meredith constitute nothing more than the customary ship of fools. It is hard to understand why Scott wastes time on them. As the only good guy the movie's got Scott must be portrayed as an anti-Nazi sympathetic to the point of finally becoming virtually a co-conspirator with Atherton-thus blunting the drama of their confrontations...