Word: guerilla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trial of the convicted murderers of George Polk, CBS correspondent, "was not a legal trial, not a legal case--but a political battle between the guerilla Communists and the government of Greece," his brother, William R. Polk '51 claimed last night. He gave his report off the trial at an American Veterans Committee meeting in Phillips Brooks House...
...confusion which has engulfed the Greek government since Saturday appeared yesterday when Premier-designate Constantin Tsaldaris agreed to meet with other ministers of the recently-resigned cabinet on the possibility of forming a coalition cabinet to be headed by a neutral premier. Meanwhile, in the north, guerilla forces claimed the "liberation" of 100 more villages...
Although all the witnesses testified that large guerilla bands had entered Greece from Albania, there was no direct testimony that an international brigade was involved...
Tracy's Odyssey leads him to the Philippines, where he serves as a guerilla and analyzes the United States for a group of awe-stricken natives under pale blue lighting...
From their caves in the Haute-Savoie the guerilla maquis of southeastern France struck their hardest blows. They raided Grenoble, wrecked the rail junction at Bellegarde. In Marseilles, great port on the alerted, invasion-jittery Mediterranean, the Germans used tanks to quell demonstrators. The Nazis denied reports that Paris was seething. The capital, they said, was so calm that its curfew had been extended from midnight to 1 a.m. But they spoke of arresting hundreds of "Communists" and two shopkeepers who were ready to sell British flags for the day of liberation. Everywhere resistance groups, now designated...