Word: guerrilla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Long Live the Bomb! The Sunday of voting was preceded by a week of bitterness, guerrilla battles and bloodshed. Extreme rightist bands circulated typewritten leaflets: "Long live the atom bomb, Poland's ultimate guarantee of freedom!" The Communists retaliated by displaying large posters showing a gorilla-like German soldier above the caption: "If you want him back, vote no." Other posters showed Winston Churchill squeezing a rubber doll (Mikolajczyk) and making it cry "No!" The Red humorists found other weapons too. On the eve of the referendum, Mikolajczyk announced that 1,213 of his party officials had been arrested...
Quezon's Problem. Forty years earlier, a young guerrilla under Aguinaldo, Quezon himself had surrendered on Bataan to U.S. forces. According to one of the most candid chapters in The Good Fight, this veteran of another Bataan defeat soon decided that the situation under MacArthur was hopeless. At one point he asked himself whether "any government has the right to demand loyalty from its citizens" if it could no longer protect them. At another he considered giving himself up to the Japanese-not, he protests, out of disloyalty but because, in a way he never makes clear, he thought...
Sovereignty for What? It doesn't seem to matter much now whether a truce [with the Communists] will come or not. Real peace is nowhere in sight. The military prospect is predominance in the field by the Nationalists, and guerrilla disruption of communications by the Communists...
...watch on Communists, foreigners. Behind the Japanese lines its eyes were flower girls, coolies and ricksha men. In the most lurid Fu Manchu tradition, it reported to Tai Li with invisible ink messages, "eliminated" those on Tai Li's blacklist, and built up the core of an effective guerrilla army...
...intrepid Guerrilla and able Administrator Confesor, TIME'S thanks for an honest opinion. But the definitive ruling on Roxas' much-disputed role in the Jap occupation must come from the Philippine people, who will decide April 23 whether they want him or Sergio Osmeña for their first President under independence...