Word: undergrounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only newspapers appearing were those owned by the Dictator. No one bought them. But the country was flooded with typewritten sheets. When the April 17 issue of TIME arrived in El Salvador, the police expurgated it. At least one copy escaped. Its story of the revolt, translated, circulated underground among thousands who welcomed a true account of the bloodthirsty mystic in the Presidential Palace...
...Nation's Talk. In underground shops and shelters, in shattered homes and streets, the Germans' first topic of talk was the bombings. A trailing second place went to what everyone called "the imminent Anglo-Saxon invasion." A lagging third was the once all-absorbing Russian front...
...wave transmitters, rooms full of U.S.-built technical equipment, modern studios, offices, and a staff of 90 Americans, stuffed into a vast warehouse in a corner of London. Its output will not differ greatly from BBC's-primarily news and its interpretation, feature talks, advice for the European underground, popular and straight music-but it will present the U.S. viewpoint, in six languages...
Civil War? Most of the story of the Polish underground filters through the London Polish Government which claims but has yet to prove that it controls the bulk of the resistance forces. Certainly opposed to the London Government is Poland's young Partisan underground, led by Polish Communists. The Partisans are probably dominant east of the Curzon Line, in territory claimed by the Russians and among Poland's old White Russian and Ukrainian minorities...
...lavishly mad prewar society, spots her at the Ritz in Paris while France is falling, has her strafed in her Rolls-Royce in a roadful of refugees, finally sets her down in Unoccupied France to run a village canteen, care for a motherless baby, marry a member of the underground. By this process she "grows a soul." Caldwell reintroduces a family she has written about before, the Bouchards, who are still the blackest-hearted munitions makers ever spawned by the folklore of America's peace-befuddled '30s. They quarrel, haggle, hate, interbreed with disdain, intrigue desperately against...