Word: partisan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fate knocked at the door last week for Europe's two fascist dictators. Mussolini, shot in the back and through the head by his partisan executioners, lay dead in Milan (see below). Adolf Hitler had been buried, dead or alive, in the rubble of his collapsing Third Reich. Whether or not he had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage (as reported from Stockholm), or had "fallen in his command post at the Reich chancellery" (as reported by the Hamburg radio, which said that he had been succeeded as Führer by Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz), or was a prisoner...
Counter-Attack (Columbia) has its off moments, but they do not keep it from being an absorbing and notable picture. Its story: a Russian paratrooper (Paul Muni) and a Partisan girl (Marguerite Chapman), seeking vital data about the location of enemy troops, are trapped with eight German soldiers in the basement of a shelled factory. The two Russians are armed, and they have lantern light and candles enough to last perhaps a week. An initialed German revolver leads them to suspect that an officer, who would have the information they seek, is hiding in disguise among their prisoners. Using their...
...Ligurian coast Lieut. General Lucian K. Truscott's Fifth Army thrust for the old naval-base town of La Spezia. Working a pincers, the 442nd Regiment (Japanese-Americans) and the 473rd Regiment (Negroes) cleared enemy defenses around the famed marble center of Carrara. Italian Partisan units swarmed out of caves and quarries to help the troops capture the village...
...however," stressed Sorokin, "a partisan of totalitarian economy. I am merely 'a conservative Christian anarchist'; I do not like any government." With this declaration, Harvard's stormy sociologist clarified his position in the controversy that, is currently raging over Friedrich A. Hayek's new book "The Road to Serfdom...
Following close on he heels of two seminars conducted here this past weekend by Friedrich A. Hayek, author of the currently-controversial book "The Road to Serfdom," the newly-organized, non-partisan Harvard Political Science Forum is presenting in its first meeting a three-way discussion on the question "Is a planned economy the 'Road to Serfdom...