Word: undergrounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scraps of food, to the dead-faced people who thronged the churches. In the ghetto there was scarcely anyone alive to hope. For deliverance from the grinding boot of the Nazis, Warsaw had waited longer than any other capital of Europe; it was nearly five years. The Polish underground was doing what it could to help the Russians, and it so notified Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, Premier of the London Polish Government, who flew to Moscow last week to TIME, AUGUST 7, 1944 discuss the Russian-Polish problem with Joseph Stalin (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Merged the Polish Army in Russia and the underground in Poland under the new committee's single command...
Later Ling's children return, experienced guerrilla fighters. They teach the humane old man to kill. He becomes the leader of the underground, is betrayed to his soft merchant son-in-law (Akim Tamiroff), a collaborationist. Katharine Hepburn causes the death of the traitor and succeeds, in an inadvertently funny banquet scene, in poisoning most of the local Japanese command. At length Ling Tan learns his hardest lesson: for all his reverence for his soil and home, he must destroy both, since they are useful only to the enemy...
Apple production is 25 times what it was in 1914, grape acreage has multiplied ten times. Orchards are irrigated by underground pipes. Farm workers get $60 monthly, a farm director $340. Last year farm workers got bonuses in kind: 400 Ibs. of apples, 300 Ibs. of plums, 1,400 Ibs. of melons, tomatoes, pumpkins, beets...
...sergeant in the Royal Irish Constabulary. One day in 1916, near his post along the lonely Kerry coast, a U-boat surfaced, put a passenger ashore. Sir Roger Casement, famed Irish patriot, was back from the Kaiser's Germany with a message for Ireland's underground rebels. A countrywoman spied him sneaking along the beach, notified the constabulary. Sergeant O'Reilly hurried to the scene, made the arrest that sent Sir Roger to a traitor's hanging in the Tower of London...