Word: luce
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Power. De Luce found the Partisan movement assuming the proportions of military big business. "Until now [they] have relied for success on their own guerrilla skill. . . . [But now] there are more new soldiers than rifles-even counting the long-barreled old squirrel shooters of Balkan War vintage-and there is a job to finish that only planes and armored vehicles...
...commander told De Luce: "There are no barriers of religion or politics. We embrace all patriots who love and fight for Yugoslavia." De Luce learned that 600 of 2,000 Jews released from an internment camp had joined the Partisans; that a considerable number of priests had become members...
...Faith. With the commander and a priest De Luce stood before the altar of a Twelfth-Century church. Fascinated, he watched the commander make the sign of the cross with one hand, while holding his grey cap with its red star in his other. Outside, looking over the roofs at a red, white and blue Croatian flag with a red star in the white stripe, the priest said: "Tired of the Fascist yoke, the priests and people of our community began cooperating a year ago with the Partisans, furnishing them money and food. We considered it the only thing...
...Italy, before he set out, De Luce was warned by "exiles who still are stoutly devoted to General Draja Mihailovich of the danger . . . [but] I've found not one scrap of evidence of Partisan terror...
Drug Tito, De Luce found, "has welded his guerrillas into a tightly disciplined and hotly idealistic force that shows more enthusiastic determination than any outfit I've seen since I met Major General Vassili Novikov's Caucasus Army. . . . It's a people's army, and presumably susceptible to most of the mistakes . . . ex-civilians usually make. But its spirit is amazing and exhilarating. It knows how to shoot straight...