Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mountains. When he could not stand Nazi domination any longer, Batouvas joined other Greeks in Crete's mountain fastness and turned from a mild, slightly paunchy Greek into a hardbitten, tough guerrilla warrior. He grew lean, learned to live on one solid meal daily; he began to develop a consummate hatred for Germans and Italians. At first he was just a guerrilla among many hundreds. Then his head for business asserted itself. Today Manolis Batouvas is one of the three main guerrilla leaders on the island. Of course Batouvas is not his real name, just as George Petrakis...
...Germany's defenses in southeastern Europe will be disrupted by the loss of the Italian Army. Italian troops, weak in battle, nevertheless do garrison duty in guerrilla-torn Yugoslavia, Greece and Crete. Algiers heard that Marshal Badoglio had ordered the withdrawal of 22 divisions from garrison duty. If this was true, the Germans will have to garrison these countries, or else abandon them. The German chances of holding the Balkans against their own heartened rebels, much less against invasion, will be lessened. Said A.P. Correspondent Wesley Gallagher, recently returned from Allied Headquarters in Algiers: "If Italy sues for peace...
...guerrilla leader, Pablo, Hemingway's terrible symbol of a man devastated by the fear of death, Akim Tamiroff has some magnificent, all but tragic moments. As Pilar, Hemingway's salty symbol of Spain's people, Greek Actress Katina Paxinou would walk away with any less leaden show. Her hawk-fine face, wallowing walk, Goyaesque style and Noah Beery laugh assure her a rich future, if only she can find roles spacious enough. As the Soviet journalist, Karkov, Konstantin Shayne makes his characterization of a political commissar the most electrifying bit in years...
...Common Wealth Party is the brain child of pious Sir Richard T. D. Acland, M.P., who believes socialism is the modern embodiment of Christian principles. He resigned from the Liberal Party to form the Common Wealth with Guerrilla Warrior Tom Wintringham, Independent Progressive M.P. Vernon Bartlett and Writer J. B. Priestley. Bartlett and Priestley quickly resigned...
...against Cadiz in 1596, by Wolfe against Quebec in 1759, by a grandson of the great Duke of Marlborough against the French in 1758. Long in the mind of Britain's Lieut. Colonel D. W. Clarke, today's Commandos were shaped from Clarke's knowledge of guerrilla warfare in Palestine...