Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smugglers. The Communists claim an army of 470,000 regular troops, 2,300,000 people's militia. It is a guerrilla army, well trained in hit & run, sabotage, infiltration...
Later Ling's children return, experienced guerrilla fighters. They teach the humane old man to kill. He becomes the leader of the underground, is betrayed to his soft merchant son-in-law (Akim Tamiroff), a collaborationist. Katharine Hepburn causes the death of the traitor and succeeds, in an inadvertently funny banquet scene, in poisoning most of the local Japanese command. At length Ling Tan learns his hardest lesson: for all his reverence for his soil and home, he must destroy both, since they are useful only to the enemy...
...warnings of his country's liberals and of China's true friends abroad. Chungking's strict censorship seemed to be relaxing. Allied correspondents, on a trip to the long forbidden Communist zone, were allowed to report warmly on the Communist village setup, land reforms, guerrilla tactics against the Japs. In Nationalist China, hitherto quiescent democratic groups issued a manifesto: "The formation of a democratic system should not be postponed any longer. We warn our fellow countrymen that if democracy is not realized in wartime, what we gain after the war will not be democracy but the disruption...
...steamy, stealthy sequence among tall reeds, far in the south, with the guerrilla boat and the camera splashed closely by enemy fire...
After four days in secret sessions, 25 delegates of all the inside-Greece factions assembled by Papandreou signed a "national charter," agreed to bury their differences in a coalition Government. Delegates from Greece's guerrilla armies, who until lately had been nearly as busy fighting each other as the Germans, assented to the formation of a single national army of resistance...