Word: partisan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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German Europe's long darkness had begun to lift. Last week, from Partisan Yugoslavia, TIME Correspondent Stoyan Pribichevich sent an account of everyday life behind the German rampart...
...nylon from damaged Allied parachutes, the people will trade almost anything they have. When the peasants hear the roar of Allied transport planes, they hurry into queues before the local barter post, offer corn, potatoes, eggs, poultry, goats, sheep and calves for strips of parachute fabric collected by the Partisan Army...
...Bold Ones Shout. In war, as in peace, the peasants work their patches of land as best they can. No one calls it collective farming, but everyone helps his neighbor and contributes to the Army. The Partisan movement's strong Communist element, Communist Tito's connections with Moscow have not noticeably altered the ways of Yugoslav peasants...
...people do not grumble when they are vexed by authority. They shout, and the Partisan Command listens. A peasant told the Partisan Command that he was sorry, but he could not give up his horse for transport until the plowing was done. Patiently the Partisan Command waited. Correspondent Pribichevich's landlady came home one day in a rage. She had been held for questioning because she had tried to salvage some wood from a bombed building...
...growing power of Partisan Leader Josip (Marshal Tito) Broz, Russian pressure for Tito's full recognition, and British insistence forced Peter to ditch his anti-Tito ministers. At 20, two months after his marriage to Princess Alexandra...