Word: guerrilla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Athanasios Klaras, known as Ares (Greek god of war), gives tenuous allegiance to the Leftist EAM, biggest of the Greek guerrilla factions. Before the war he did time in jail for forgery and worse. When the Germans came, he collected a gang of thugs, escaped to the hills, impartially harried Nazis and political opponents by slitting their ears and rubbing salt into the slits. A Greek who recently saw him describes Ares thus: "A swarthy face spanned by a handlebar mustache. ... He scorns rank, wears a uniform of which every piece is from a dead enemy. Around his fat waist...
...Stephanos Saraphis, ex-colonel in the Greek Army, led a guerrilla band liquidated last year by the jealous EAM. As an example to other rivals, EAM paraded Saraphis in chains through the Greek hinterland. Then, by some yet unexplained persuasion, Saraphis sold himself as a general to the Leftists. Now he commands, with distinction, a big guerrilla force eyried in the Pindus...
...Czech and Slovak the word sped across the Carpathians to clandestine radio sets: The fraternal and allied Red Army stands on [your] borders. . . . Welcome your Russian brethren! . . . Arise and fight! . . . Unleash a national guerrilla...
...China Press and the Shanghai Times-did special pieces for Reuters, the New York Times, Asia, Travel and the Christian Science Monitor when he wasn't too busy ducking Jap bombs. In 1936 he made a flying trip to Inner Mongolia, later traveled through Manchukuo and the guerrilla-infested country of Occupied China, visited Japan often-on one of those junkets covered the whole country from Nagasaki to Aomori...
Yenan the city is no magnet to correspondents. Battered by continuous Jap bombings, it is a rubble heap inside ancient mud-and-stone walls; its inhabitants live in caves carved from the yellow loess mountains. But it is the political capital of North China's guerrilla areas with their 30 to 40 million inhabitants, and the military headquarters of a potentially powerful force of 500,000 regulars (a new high), perhaps a million irregulars...