Word: luce
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...palaces hidden behind the so-foot-high, 1½-mile-long wall, the Czars played power politics. In 1918 the Kremlin became Bolshevism's heart & pulse, and in it Joseph Stalin weaves Russia's policy. * A typical fact about 1943 Europe was A.P.man Daniel De Luce's discovery in Yugoslavia that the only army visible on the Adriatic coast was an army of Partisan guerrillas. The Soviet hammer and sickle is a favorite emblem of that army...
Rain and darkness made an ideal cloak. In the hour before dawn the little vessel from Italy ran in close to the rocky Dalmatian coast and dropped its solitary passenger. Daniel De Luce, Associated Press correspondent, climbed into the wet woods without a sound, felt his way to the appointed rendezvous...
...Partisans appeared: a hard-faced, unshaven man with a red star sewn to his cap and a 16-year-old, lugging an Italian bandoleer and carbine. Swiftly De Luce was passed from hand to hand, always upward, away from the sea, into the Dinaric Alps...
...Wrote De Luce: "They urged quick dispatch of American and British troops across the Adriatic and promised the people would gladly tear out their vineyards to make landing strips. . . . They argued also for sending grain, beans, rice and medical . . . supplies to Partisan areas where the population is facing hunger and disease. . . . 'But arms are the most important of all. We can fight without food but we cannot fight without arms...
...military alliance with Great Britain has already been urged by two leading Republican spokesmen: Representative Clare Boothe Luce (TIME, July 5), Governor Thomas E. Dewey...