Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rebirth. On June 18, De Gaulle's words bombarded France from a BBC studio: "France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war." The Fighting French movement was born that...
...Alternatives. Such is the man, the Government, the idea to which the U.S. has so far refused full recognition. On invasion's eve, De Gaulle and his movement enjoy a grudging, strictly limited recognition by the U.S.; and equal (although more warmly expressed) recognition by the British; a fuller (although still incomplete) recognition by De Gaulle's "dear Russia...
...people were on strike. They refused to buy Government lottery tickets, go to Government movie theaters. Druggists, doctors, lawyers, justices of the peace, hundreds of Government employes declined to work. Railroad workers struck. The schools, the National University were closed; both students and staff stayed away. Priests supported the movement. A mass for the souls of the executed drew huge crowds, was stopped by police...
...Office. One riddle remained: would the men of the mountains, the guerrillas of the Communist-led EAM and the middle-road EDES, linked now in a committee of liberation that might become a government any day, accept Papandreou as a genuine member of the resistance movement? Or would they say that he had knuckled under to the King to get himself the premiership? Papandreou had dropped a puzzling remark: "Greek politics have changed. We are no longer royalists or republicans. Just nationalists or extreme left-wingers." The committeemen of the mountains were in touch with Tito of Yugoslavia...
...Railroad. A 30-year-old Slovenian private lost his wife and five-year-old son when the Italians came to his town. His mother and sister were sent to forced labor in Germany. The private joined the Liberation Movement. When the Allies invaded Sicily, the Germans were using Trieste as an embarkation point for southern Italy. Each day for a month the private and his fellow Partisans cut the German-controlled railroad from Ljubljana to Trieste. The Germans cut down the forest on either side of the right of way, installed high-tension wires, built pillboxes every 500 yards...