Word: birches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secret Army. How strong is the Underground Army? The Poles claim 300,000 men, but this is probably an exaggeration. It is an army bivouacked deep in the homeland's pine and birch forests. It uses light arms cached by the old Polish Army, snatched from the Germans or parachuted from abroad. As a rule it has, until recently, avoided open battle with the heavily armed occupation forces...
...rhymes with O-lone-tie) had known Paasikivi for years, knew the views and fears of Finns as well as Paasikivi understood the fears and foibles of Russians. Mme. Kollontay's father was a Czarist general, her mother a farming Finn; her childhood summers were spent among the birch-crowded lakes of southeastern Finland. Her first book was on the Finnish proletariat. In her quiet study in the Soviet legation, the two old diplomats could talk of peace in tranquil tones...
Dark days came for Poland as the Russians began to come out of their endless birch forests and drift westward, seeking a place in Europe. The era culminated in the three partitions of Poland in 1772, 1793 and 1795. At the end, there was no Poland; Russia, Prussia and Austria had swallowed everything...
Khaki windbreaker buttoned crookedly, white cloth hat drooped around his ears, the Old Fisherman was all grins as he rode back to his special train at Birch Island Station,- Ontario, in an Army jeep. He spread out his palms in the classic fisherman's gesture, shortened the distance between them, leaned back his head and laughed...
Fish-fries followed fishing. For dessert there were bowls of Manitoulin blueberries. In the background constantly hovered Royal Canadian Mounted Police, members of the U.S. Army, Secret Service men. The inhabitants of Birch Island Station (three summer cottages, two farm dwellings, one church) kept mum about the Old Fisherman, the warplanes that zoomed...