Word: underground
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alabama. To Clinton S. Golden, onetime official of the National Labor Relations Board, was assigned direct charge of the East. On top of the whole field organization was placed pious and progressive U.M.W. Secretary & Treasurer Philip Francis Murray, who. just off an emigrants' boat from Scotland, went underground in a Pittsburgh mine...
SUMMER WILL SHOW-Sylvia Townsend Warner-Viking ($2.50). Wordy, but rarely dull, Author Warner turns to French political history, presenting an ambitious character study of a strongwilled, wealthy young Englishwoman who, captivated by her faithless husband's ex-mistress, casts off fortune, respectability; donates her services to the underground revolutionists; in time's nick escapes being shot for participating in the abortive Parisian insurrection...
...Nazis are not even one of the two biggest groups in Germany, according to Spivak. These are the pro-Hohenzollerns and the Communists. The underground Communists (about 50,000) are superbly organized. From Paris Spivak made an appointment to meet a high Communist in a Hamburg night club. The man showed up in his uniform as a Nazi official. Said he: ''The Reichswehr is far more shrewd than the Nazi Party. The General Staff is composed of scholars who know not only the military situation but the political and economic as well. . . . Before Hitler is through he will...
Austria, under a foreign-supported and schismatic dictatorship (see p. 20), is the only nation to produce underground rebels with a sense of humor. Their best joke: to distribute an official-looking notice on counterfeit police stationery warning the populace to defend itself against ordinary criminals because all the energies of the police were required to catch political criminals...
...United Front underground organization includes about 75,000 Communists, 75,000 Revolutionary Socialists and 80,000 trade unionists. Wrecked by the Feb. 12, 1934 revolt, the Social Democratic Schutz-bund still has a fearless nucleus and lots of guns. Against these is a Nazi organization of 55,000, chiefly among farmers and students...