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Elsewhere in old Yugoslavia at least six smaller Axis-surrounded islands carry on the struggle: 1) in the mountains behind Split, bands of Croats fight the Italians; 2) farther north, around Delnice, other Croats strike hard & often at Italian garrisons near Fiume; 3) eastward on the Croat plain, patriot guerrillas are so active that the Germans have acknowledged the necessity of sending flotillas down the Danube to fight them; 4) in the Croat forests, an underground peasant organization, Zeleni Kadar (Green Quarters), resists both the Germans and their puppet terrorist, Ante Pavelich; 5) Slovenes in the farthest northern section resist...
...Patriot, adventurer and scalawag, McGuinness has run rum into the U.S., guns into Ireland for the I.R.A. and into Morocco for the Riffs. In the days of the Trouble he rescued Frank Carty, now government whip, from Londonderry jail, later accompanied Admiral Byrd to the South Pole...
...unknown thousands of supposedly conquered Europeans who still resist Adolf Hitler. As he watches from his mountain walls, he stands for every European saboteur who awaits the moment to jam the machine, plant the bomb, or pry up the railroad rail. He has directly inspired others, like Rumanian Patriot Ion Minulescu, who harries the Axis from the Carpathians, and Albanian and Montenegrin guerrillas who worry at Italian flanks on the Adriatic coast...
...size, in the long military experience of its leader and the great number of its troops, it dwarfs the forces of such historic guerrillas as the Tirolean patriot Andreas Hofer, the Philippines' Emilio Aguinaldo, and Mexico's Francisco "Pancho" ("I'll use the whole ocean to gargle") Villa...
...very much alive again, reincarnate in patriot guise and touring the country under the usual impeccable auspices with a rousing pageant called You Can Defend America. Some 50 regular members of Dr. Buch-man's troupe, aided by local volunteers in the mob scenes, last week put on four New Jersey performances of You Can Defend America-two in Newark, one each in Trenton and Kearny. The long and notable list of sponsors was headed by Governor & Mrs. Charles Edison. Dr. Buchman and the cast were busy as beavers between shows, explaining the principles of Moral Re-Armament...