Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great gainers were old Leon Blum's Socialists, in league with Foreign Minister Georges Bidault's youthful, lusty Mouvement Républicain Populaire (Socialist Christian movement...
Song Chin Woo, a fiftyish editor with a long record in the secret nationalist movement, is remaining aloof from parties while things jell. Cho Mansik, called the Gandhi of Korea, is a Christian church elder whom the Russians reportedly brought out of retirement to head the municipal government of industrial Pyengyang. As for the long-exiled government at Chung king, some Koreans would welcome it as a ready-made instrument for wielding political power. More likely, its members will return as private individuals...
...Anni Rutz (the Virgin Mary) and Willy Bierling (St. John) had been refused American Military Government permission to play their respective roles and were being held in Allied prisons as active members of the Nazi party. But one leading character, Hans Zwink, a regular member of the anti-Nazi movement, was ready to go on stage. His role: Judas...
...sounding a little like one unaccustomed to public speaking) told some of its exploits. OSS men had wormed their way into Gestapo schools. Others had infiltrated Siam to turn Bangkok into an Allied listening post. They had manned a mosquito fleet running munitions and information to the Greek resistance movement, worked 18 months as advance men in Africa for the invasion...
...small and barren office, Damaskinos labored for the poor and oppressed. His philanthropies, though not connected directly with any one resistance movement, also succored the men in the hills. He banded his clergy into the EOCHA (National Organization of Christian Solidarity) to help those interned by the occupying powers. So popular was this organization that on several occasions quisling Greeks tried to exploit it. Damaskinos fiercely resisted, kept politicians' hands off. Toward occupation's end, the frustrated Germans put Damaskinos under house arrest...