Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...point there was no dispute. The Serbs have fighting courage, not just ordinary courage like Englishmen or Germans, but fanatical courage that awes everyone who has to do with them. Two tales told last week exemplify it: >In 1912 a Serbian komitaji (guerrilla), having been captured by the Turks, was sentenced to death. Before the firing squad the Turkish commander cynically asked him: "Have you ever been in a worse predicament?" He replied: "Twice-on two occasions friends came to my house and I had no bread to offer them." > A Serbian general ordered a colonel to lead his troops...
...immediate military importance of the Yugoslav overturn is that Germany can hardly attack Greece with ease or comfort without having Yugoslavia secure. If Germany has to conquer Yugoslavia first, she will have at best an ugly little campaign to fight, and afterwards nasty guerrilla warfare that will cost both time...
...Britain was doing; he thought Britain and the U. S. could help each other in "a relationship of mutual selfishness." The British understood this kind of talk, gave Colonel Donovan a free rein. He traveled through England, observed that the British had trained themselves to fight a guerrilla war if their island was invaded, concluded that guerrilla warfare would be effective if the British were not exhausted. The British problem, as the Colonel saw it, was to resist all kinds of assault without exhausting their strength for the eventual offensive. And they could resist only by keeping open their...
...from the shifting capital, along the North Border, the despised and feared Communist armies began to use numbers and space. Under the Marx-mouthed name of total-mass protracted resistance they developed guerrilla warfare into a new military tactic. And in what was left of Shanghai, labor-loving Rewi Alley, Snow and others, cooked up the grandiose pink dream of China's Industrial Co-operatives British Ambassador Sir Archibald John Kerr Clark Kerr did the liaison work that began their reality...
...Country Club" (that's us) refer to them disdainfully as the "plumbers down the river." To learn that their mortal enemies have rarely been guilty of a more complete or nasty comment than "Technology? Good school," would be heartbreaking, but the myth is as yet undisturbed. Their continuous guerrilla warfare, consisting of such minor pranks as neckties draped around John Harvard and abortive attempts to weld the gates, has gone unnoticed. Last year, however, Rochester's abduction did attract some attention, but Harvard failed to grasp the idea that it was only part of a rivalry of long standing...