Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Norwegian Odd Nansen's From Day to Day, a grim report, set down with dignity, of what he saw as a prisoner in various German concentration camps; and Briton F. Spencer Chap man's The Jungle Is Neutral, an expertly written story of his life as a guerrilla soldier in Japanese-held Malaya. Detractors and worshipers of F.D.R. took a relative breather. The opening of most of his personal papers to researchers next March probably meant an approaching rain of biographical books: John Gunther's inside F.D.R. had already been announced. But only the President...
...dance bands around his native Seattle, went to the University of Washington, took up classical music (piano and composition), and became a reporter for the Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. A U.S. Army Air Force pilot during the war, he spent three years as a member of a guerrilla army in the Philippines. As deputy chief of one of the commands, he had 28,000 men under him. He kept up his music by playing the pianos he found occasionally in Filipino homes, and by learning to play the native agong (a cross between a cymbal and a drum...
Jesse learned to kill in the Civil War. The son of a steel-willed, thrice-married mother (whose first husband, Jesse's father, was a preacher) ran away at 16 to join the Southern guerrillas. His commander, "Bloody Bill" Anderson, liked to cut off the ears of the Yankees he killed and hang them on his horse's bridle. "Dingus" (Jesse's nickname) equaled him in savagery, finally rose to share the command of a guerrilla gang fighting in Texas. After one battle he "cold-bloodedly finished off the Reverend U.P. Gradner, who pleaded that...
...great day for Lieut. General James A. Van Fleet and for the Greek people to whom he had tried so hard to bring peace. Earlier this year, as the Greek army launched its summer offensive, Van Fleet had predicted that Greece's Red guerrillas would be wiped out before year's end (TIME, Aug. 22). Last week his prophecy was proved right. From a secret radio station in Communist Rumania, Greece's Communist guerrilla leaders announced that they had had enough. Military operations, said the radio, would cease forthwith, "to avoid total destruction of Greece...
...Western victory in Greece was winged with hope and also with foreboding; the State Department last week received reports that the Communists were about to start guerrilla warfare across the border in Marshal Tito's Yugoslavia...