Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only two Americans ever to participate in guerrilla warfare behind Franco's lines in Spain, Captain William Alstrom and Lieutenant Irving Goff, will speak tonight at Cantabridgia Hall under the auspices of the Harvard-Radcliffe Graduate Student Union...
...correspondent who was the first to get the full story of Chiang Kai-shek's kidnapping at Sian (First Act in China). He saw the debacle of the 29th Route Army at Peiping, spent nearly a year in Soviet territory. His book gives detailed descriptions of guerrilla fighting and of the Red Army's famed "short attack." Best testimony to the guerrillists' deadly effectiveness are Author Bertram's quotations from the gloomy diaries of the Japanese soldiers who fought them...
...three observers give almost identical reasons for predicting a Chinese victory: the unprecedented national unity of the Chinese since the "remarriage" of the Kuomintang and the Communists, their unexpected bravery when properly led in battle, the success of the Communist-inspired, guerrilla tactics. They particularly make the point that Japan cannot hold more than the cities and lines of communication. She has occupied China, declares Mowrer, "about as effectively as a few swimmers can be said to 'occupy' a swimming pool...
What took place on the Carpatho-Ukrainian border last week, however, was no mere guerrilla scrap but several minor military actions and one small, desperate, pitched battle. The suspicion was that these were instigated by Germany and, besides being a warning to Hungary to lay off, were possibly the Nazis' first violent move toward setting up the nucleus of the Greater Ukrainian State...
Most fascinating of new "New China's" educational institutions are those now operating at Yenan, "capital" of the northern, Communist-held territory. At Yenan now are the Anti-Japanese University, the North Shensi Academy (training school for guerrilla-war organizers), the Marxist & Leninist University, the Lo Shun Art Academy, the School of Dramatic Art (directed by Shanghai's top-rank cinemactress). There were few buildings in Yenan to house the schools but in the hard-packed loess hillsides, students gouged cave classrooms and dormitories (see cut). There 4,000 men, 1,000 women, more than there...