Word: undergrounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slick French newcomer last week joined the ranks of America's refugee publications. Title: Tricolor. Descent: from London's La France Libre, blitz-born champion of French resistance. Contents: literary appreciations of the French underground; elegant patter on a Paris midinette's chic triumph over her ersatz clothes; letters of Marcel Proust; essays on Vichy doubletalk, wartime Paris, Painter Pierre Bonnard. Editor: André Labarthe, brilliant ex-physicist, intellectual foe of Vichy, onetime friend of Charles de Gaulle, former Giraud minister, now an OWIer...
...wild marshes and the dark forests strode soldiers of Poland's Underground Army. They bore aloft their country's red-&-white flag, marched into the Russian lines, presented "declarations of collaboration" to Red Army commanders: "We meet the forces of the Soviet Union on Polish soil as our co-belligerents in the fight against our common enemy, Germany. We bring to your knowledge that there is in existence in these territories an administration secretly organized by the Polish State under the yoke of German occupation...
Thus, in London last week, the Polish Government in Exile pictured the first meetings of Polish and Russian forces. They were meetings fraught with uncertainty: can the Polish underground and the Red Army cooperate on soil whose ownership is bitterly disputed by their respective Governments? Reported London: In two localities the Red Army had "shot" underground soldiers; in 14 localities cooperation had been "satisfactory...
Secret State. Poland's underground fighters have been toughened and tempered by four bloody, silent years of warfare with the Nazis. Poles are proud that the Nazis have never found a Polish Quisling. A few small-fry Poles have collaborated with the enemy; the nation's true leaders have preferred torture and death. Poles call their secret state the legitimate heir of Poland's prewar Government. The émigré Cabinet is the secret state's head until elections can be held in a free Poland. The hidden state within Poland runs an administrative system, army...
From that great tradition, from the deep underground of France's past, came one stirring call in the Assembly's debate. René Ferrière, chairman of the Assembly's press committee, proposed that the base of a new press regime be built upon France's underground publications: "the first sincere press in France in many years...