Word: bigart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Protestant in Spain today is a second-class citizen. So concludes Pulitzer-Prizewinning Reporter Homer Bigart, who last week reported on a month spent in Spain on his way home from a year's tour of duty in the Iron Curtain countries. Writing in the New York Herald Tribune, Correspondent Bigart, 41, cited some chapter & verse to back up his conclusion...
...beliefs. He is not allowed to practice his faith in public. The chapel he attends must not display any exterior evidence that it is a place of worship. It cannot advertise its existence-not even with a bulletin board. It cannot be listed in the public directories." According to Bigart, a Protestant clergyman "suffers much the same type of persecution as the Roman Catholic clergy endure in Communist Hungary," although he noted that no Protestant clergyman is in jail...
...Markos looks so unlike the published photographs of him," wrote Bigart, "that I failed to recognize him. The spreading moustache which he affected two years ago has been closely cropped. [At 41] he is solidly built and of medium height. His eyes are closely set and deeply lined . . . The brown hair under his partisan cap was long and bushy; rebellious strands kept sliding down his forehead. His mouth is broad and expressive. He has the gift of a quick and charming smile that can alter instantly a face which, in repose, seems hard, impatient, pitiless...
...Bigart found the wily Markos serenely confident that "by judicious economy in men and ammunition, he could persevere . . . until the Greek Army campaign collapsed through attrition of manpower or was bogged by autumn rains...
...mission accomplished, Bigart was given a guerrilla guard for the 50-hour walk to government territory near Ioannina. There U.S. officers put him on the plane for Athens, where he cabled the Trib. It cabled back: "Thank God you're alive and please take all precautions, including a bodyguard." The Trib did not have to worry. The Greek government put a guard on Bigart-to keep him from slipping away again-until he left for Rome...