Word: partisan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wish to nominate General Josip Brozovich, leader of the Partisan Yugoslavs whom the Spaniards in their revolution named "Tito...
German motorized troops dashed from point to point. Yet some saw that the occupying force was incredibly small, took courage at evidence that the few were being shuttled to look like many. Partisan bands began to take shape in the foothills of the Alps. Against them, the Germans offered 42 times the normal pay of an Italian soldier to those who would sign up under Hitler and the Duce. There were few takers...
...Italy, before he set out, De Luce was warned by "exiles who still are stoutly devoted to General Draja Mihailovich of the danger . . . [but] I've found not one scrap of evidence of Partisan terror...
...evening last week came a flash from Bureau Chief Edward Kennedy at Algiers that made A.P. eyes pop: "DE LUCE MADE TRIP INTO BAL KANS WHICH ARRANGED ITALY. WILL WRITE SERIES STORIES. DE LUCE DESERVES HIGHEST CREDIT." Then came the first De Luce dispatch. The astonishing dateline: "A Partisan Brigade Headquarters, in Yugoslavia...
...dark about how tall, blond, able and amiable Daniel De Luce had got into Yugoslavia, how long he would be able to stay, how he was getting his dispatches out. Good guess was that he had gone in with some Allied officers who are known to have reached Partisan Army headquarters; that Allied torpedo boats probably tote his dispatches across the Adriatic Sea to Italy...