Word: subway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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France was the leader of resistance. Firing squads riddled ten hostages for the wounding of three German soldiers. That evening a German soldier died of wounds received in a Paris subway attack (TIME, Sept. 22). The next day the Germans warned that "all classes" of Parisians were subject to reprisals. That night the Germans surprised Parisian saboteurs wrecking Army trucks in a garage. The saboteurs escaped. The next day the Germans shot ten "Communists," the following day twelve other men. France's limp, aged Marshal Henri Philippe Petain took to the air, urged his people to complete submission...
...Paris, after a week of comparative quiet, a Nazi soldier was clubbed as he left a theater. A German officer was shot from behind as he emerged from a Paris subway. Police in La Rochelle raided cafes and restaurants, arrested 1,000 people. Terrorists tried to blow up the Government offices at Limoges. Vichy moaned that "Communists are multiplying incidents all over the country." Joseph Barthelemy, Minister of Justice, proudly announced that 34,000 persons are now in French prisons for "various crimes...
Military Courtesy and Customs of the Service (20th Century-Fox) has everything: a plot, Hollywood actors, props and plenty of action. It is a Grade-A Production. Opening with shots of crowds milling through a subway, it moves on to the lyrical rhythm of a symphony orchestra's string section. Purpose: to show what can be done by people who are willing to work together...
...Harvard Freshman's love-life moves by stages. First comes Radcliffe, a sort of practice era during which he learns about Boston's subway system and horn-rimmed glasses. A bit of advice: go through this stage on the q.t. without boasting of your conquests. You may not be so proud of them in years to come...
Death also came to a Nazi colonel, stabbed in the Paris subway. Hereafter, by order of enraged Lieut. General Ernst von Schaumburg, commander of the German Paris garrison, similar violence will be paid for by the lives of Frenchmen arrested by or for the occupying authorities "in a number corresponding to the gravity of the act." Already the Nazis have 150,000 French locked up to choose from. And within 24 hours General von Schaumburg had been challenged to make his choice...