Word: patrolling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nazi groups, just as the Communist Party was gaining its greatest influence as an anti-Fascist force, the Fascists as an anti-Communist force. ^ Not more than 1,000.000 U. S. citizens haye been seriously affected by essentially foreign or un-American activities. ^ The Communist Party is a "border patrol" of Russia, led, financed, dominated and directed by Russia for the benefit of Russia. U. S. workmen "have borne the brunt of the Communist efforts" and suffer most from them, but have resisted so successfully that only ten or twelve of some 48 C. I. O. unions are "more than...
...Communist Party is a "border patrol" of Russia, led, financed, dominated and directed by Russia for the benefit of Russia. U. S. workmen "have borne the brunt of the Communist efforts" and suffer most from them, but have resisted so successfully that only ten or twelve of some 48 C. I. O. unions are "more than tinged" with Communism...
...front here is ... a vast area of forests filled with Finnish and Russian patrols who are continually meeting and dueling in the bitterest weather conditions of any war ever fought. . . . The soldiers' daily routine is one or two hours of patrol, then back to the headquarters hut where they sleep in a big room for two or three hours, then out again for an hour or two and back for four. This goes on continuously, the men never getting out of their clothes, except to take a Finnish steam-bath every couple of days, when they must undress...
...Sometime during the night Russians pushed up a patrol of 800 men ... to a hill 400 metres from my hut and the Finns' main supply road. Here the Russians set up machine-gun nests in a commanding position to attack. . . . One hundred Finns sneaked up on the Russian position and opened fire before the Russians knew they were there. . . . While these 100 Finns kept the Russians occupied from the front, 100 more made a flanking movement uphill on both sides of the Russians and the circle of Finns poured hell into the enemy. ... It was a half-hour slaughter...
Last week the Columbus passed out of the Gulf of Mexico at Florida's tip, with U. S. destroyers escorting her. Off Charleston, S. C. the U. S. heavy cruiser Tuscaloosa (President Roosevelt's last cruiseship) took up the patrol, to see that no untoward incident occurred in neutral waters. She rode so close to the Columbus that the latter had to carry a night light to avert collision, but no ill befell her until fugitive and escort reached a point 320 mi. northwest of Bermuda. Then the British destroyer Hyperion, which had heard Tuscaloosa's radio...