Word: anti-nazi
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When France fell, many of Gide's attackers showed up on the Nazi side. Ardently anti-Nazi, Gide continued to needle his enemies in articles for the Paris Figaro. Said Britain's Novelist E. M. Forster (A Passage to India) last year: "He has remained an individualist in an age which imposes discipline. ... It seemed to us, as we listened to Gide, that here was a light which the darkness could...
...parsonage at Vedersoe, in Denmark's western Jutland. Pastor Kaj Munk was telephoning a friend. He said: "The Germans have come for me." Then he hung up. It was the second time in five months that the invader had laid hands on Denmark's most outspoken anti-Nazi pamphleteer and preacher, who is also the country's foremost poet and playwright (TIME, Sept. 27). The first time the Germans held him two months, sent him home with instructions to confine his preaching to tiny Vedersoe, keep his political views to himself. Said Kaj Munk: "If for fear...
...mountain hut he confronted Fenton triumphantly, explained that it was all an anti-Nazi plot. Escaping Axis prisoners were given the mittens be cause the curious pattern was a map. The food at the shrine was for Bastineau. The cure's cryptic sermons kept the villagers informed of anti-Nazi activities. De Vaudois tied Fenton's arms with a rope, began to lead her to Gestapo headquarters. Suddenly a "wondrous and loud and wild" whoopee sounded above their heads. "Eas ily, gracefully as a jumper on skis, Bastineau came down the chimney's broad, wooden shaft...
...Vichy Chief of State, failed to make a scheduled broadcast. That caused a spate of reports, some buttressed by "informed circles" in France, all adding up to the suggestion that Marshal Pétain was fed up with Nazi Puppet Pierre Laval, and anxious to set himself aright with anti-Nazi Frenchmen and the Allies. Finally, a Geneva newspaper published the text of the speech Pétain never made-a document purporting to promulgate a return to democratic government. At week's end, an aurora borealis of rumors flamed from Vichy, Berlin, Madrid, Berne, Stockholm, French Africa...
...Free Will." Last August the French underground newspaper Resistance predicted that Vichy would do exactly what Vichy seemed to be doing last week: i.e., make a show of democratic repentance, against the day when the Allied armies and anti-Nazi Frenchmen liberate France. Said Réesistance...