Word: loyalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More as a formality than from any hope of help, the Polish Government in London for the second time in a month appealed to Britain and the U.S. The Polish Home Army (which is loyal to the London Poles) had fought the Germans through five years of underground and guerrilla resistance. It had aided the Red Army. It had suffered grave losses in last fall's Warsaw uprising. Now what the Germans had left of the Home Army was being systematically "liquidated" by the Russians and their puppet Warsaw Government...
...purge also involved Poles east of the Curzon line. There, in territories annexed by the Russians, all Poles were being uprooted. Those who were loyal to Warsaw were sent to Poland. Those who were loyal to London were sent to Russia...
...organization, OPLA, at 10,000. Many of them were civilians. ¶ The three EAM trade-union leaders, who claimed to represent Greek labor, were all formerly associated with Moscow's Red International of Labor Unions (Profintern). They had no more authority to speak for labor than labor leaders loyal to the Greek Government. ¶ The British common soldiers were resentful at the reporting of Greek news. They also despised ELAS, whom the Tommies, many of them members of the British Postal Workers Union, considered "the lousiest, dirtiest, scruffiest lot of fighters our men ever came across, compared with whom...
Unknown Ingredient. But what of the top Nazis who cannot hide? With a compact army of young SS and Hitler Youth fanatics, they will retreat, behind a loyal rearguard cover of Volksgrenadiere and Volksstürmer, to the Alpine massif which reaches from southern Bavaria across western Austria to northern Italy. There immense stores of food and munitions are being laid down in prepared fortifications. If the retreat is a success, such an army might hold out for years...
Present were all the bigwigs of Washington, some little wigs, and a host of loyal Democrats from all over. They all filed by to shake the hands of Eleanor Roosevelt and Bess Truman. (The President received in the Red Room, for close friends.) The characters of the day turned out to be a farmer from Morris, Minn., and his wife. Anton Ettesvold had won a competition staged by a Yankton (S. Dak.) radio station as "the typical Midwest farmer." His reward was a trip to Washington, where he was invited to the inauguration by Mrs. Roosevelt...