Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...while Adolf Hitler's armies were passing from conquered Yugoslavia to other fields of battle, Serb guerrillas collected in the dark mountains and tangled forests of their back country. Officers and men of Yugoslavia's shattered, scattered army joined them. They organized the guerrillas, who began to raid German garrisons, occupy villages, cut rail lines to vital Black Sea ports. Last week they struck hard. Enraged by the execution of 50 hostages as "intellectual instigators" of the Zagreb telephone ex change explosion that killed five Germans (TIME, Sept. 22), revolutionary Chetniks seized the town of Srpska Mitrovitza, disarmed...
...Yank in the R. A. F." packs enough wallop in its action shots to satisfy the appetite of the most thrill-hungry customer. And when it comes to making a graphic account of the events of Europe today, scenes like the British evacuation from Dunkirk, and the night raid over Berlin tops, for sheer punch, anything that has yet been turned out on World...
...painting, which has aroused storms of both favorable and unfavorable comment, depicts the bombing of the Spanish town of Guernica in 1937 by the air force of insurgent General France. It was done by Picasso for the Loyalist government as a condemnation of the raid which virtually annihilated the population and town of the sacred Basque shrine...
...work is not calculated to "please" its onlookers. According to Benjamin Rowland, Jr., associate professor of Fine Arts, Picasso believed that abstraction, especially in extreme degrees would be much more moving than a realistic description of an actual air raid...
...figures in the painting are therefore purposely given horrible, almost indecent distortions so that one will recoil on seeing them. The artist thus hopes to "suggest" the chaos and shock of disaster, the destruction of mind and spirit that takes place in such a catastrophe as the air raid on Guernica and, above all, the helpless rage and hatred of the trapped victims...