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...this. Several times the provisional government has combed Santo Domingo to disarm constitutionalist civilians, though even the communist factions--which are very small--have foresworn recourse to violence. Yet the U.S. continues to supply the Dominican military. Recently the "neutral" peace force began training the Dominican army in antiguerilla methods...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'From Ballots to Bullets' | 6/1/1966 | See Source »

...Wehrmacht has burned down forests where guerrillas lurked. It has razed villages, killed or imprisoned thousands of suspects, created special antiguerilla forces (in one case 60.000 strong), offered big rewards (for the head of Guerrilla Chief Mikhail Romashkin: 15,000 rubles, a house, 32 acres of land, two cows, a horse). But the hour came when the Wehrmacht's mouthpiece, Lieut. General Kurt Diettmar, had to make an admission: "The struggle with the partisans has become a complex problem, which cannot be solved by small means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Armies of the Forest | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

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