Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Resistance bubbled up like a ferment within conquered France-and was met by a wave of hysterical repression. The Paris radio admitted some 4,000 arrests within 15 days. Swiss observers at the border saw French guerrilla fighters gunning it out with regular German troops. There was sabotage as usual...
...tain attempted recently to promulgate his own eleventh-hour "democracy" (TIME, Nov. 29), he proved himself still to be a man to watch. His move was shrewd. Its purpose : to attract the many Frenchmen who still revere his name, the many who fear the wrath of Gaullist and guerrilla alike when liberation comes, the many who have something to lose in a postliberation purge...
...while other, greater offensives were mounted elsewhere, the Allies were succeeding, to a limited extent. After the Nazis hurried reinforcements down from the north, Montgomery and Clark between them engaged some twelve enemy divisions-probably fewer than the Allies had in Italy, no more than the Germans had in guerrilla-torn Yugoslavia...
Sued for Divorce. By Ruth Mitchell, fiftyish, "blood-brother" of Yugoslavia's guerrilla leader Draja Mihailovich, sister of the late aerophile General William ("Billy") Mitchell: Stanley Knowles, British schoolmaster, her second husband; after 18 years of marriage, eleven of separation; in Reno...
...picture's action is not as expert as its characterizations. Towards the end it begins to fall apart. The escaped prisoners whip up a very well-filmed insurrection among French villagers and lead a retreat to join a highly fictional guerrilla army."Let's scorch the earth!" cries implausible Housewife Emma Dunn. They do-and a good deal of the picture's force and persuasiveness go up in smoke. Otherwise, The Cross of Lorraine (which takes its name from its undergrounders' Guallist password) is one of the best war films that has been made...