Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tito's movement attracted the most followers. He struck the Germans at every chance, captured their supplies and arms. His Partisans, dispersed through the hills, ate when they could, which was not often, fought when they could, which was often enough. The Partisan emblem was a red, five-pointed star. For a time a yellow hammer & sickle was used by one brigade, soon was discreetly dropped. Word spread through the hills, towns and cities : a remarkable Croat named Tito was fighting the Germans. Yugoslavs from all classes and political parties joined him, including, last week, a son of Mihailovich...
...blacksmith's boy from Klanjec had become leader of a resistance movement that at one time or another pinned down as many as 18 German divisions in fruit less, fraying warfare in the wild Croatian and Bosnian mountains. But even in the darkest days, when it seemed as if the out side world would never hear the thunder of war reverberating among the beleaguered hills, Tito seldom grew irritable or despondent...
...beat and drowned a hated Fascist (TIME, Sept. 25). In other cities there were other acts of mob violence. Barefoot carabinieri flunkied for Allied officers. Once they had been traditional symbols of legality and order. Now they were simple absurdities. But the mobs had not coalesced into a movement. Most Italians were too preoccupied with keeping alive, or too weak from hunger to stir...
...shore under fire. One is hit and helpless. A plane, too, goes down. These are the finest shots of this stage of battle which have yet been released. Those which follow, ashore, are hardly less fine, made very close to the ground as marines, heroic in size and movement on the screen, rush across the open beach against everything the Japanese can throw at them. A hit man stops short, falls wounded before the lens. The cutting-away from such bits is swift, perhaps overtactful toward civilian audiences; but the difficulty and danger of such an assault have never been...
When the McNamara brothers, one an A.F. of L. union official, were arrested for the dynamiting, it was called a "frame-up." When, after months of agitation, the McNamaras confessed to the crime, the U.S. labor movement swallowed one of its bitterest pills...