Word: undergrounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Killer. The Germans put Darnand in power. Late last December, old Marshal Pétain first resisted, then gave in to a Nazi demand that he revamp his government, throw out many of his closest advisers, replace them with stronger men who would not be squeamish about suppressing underground resistance. One of the new appointees was Joseph Darnand, a former carpenter who received full power over French police, gendarmerie, secret service, militia, and the private armies of ultra-collaborationists like Marcel Déat and Jacques Doriot. Also, in the event of Puppet Pierre Laval's absence (which...
Other forums featured Kurt Singer, noted journalist and underground agent, and Senator Claude Pepper. Singer lashed out against the Reich in his address, advocating extended military occupation of Germany after the war. Senator pepper supported the formation of a world federation...
...hope, approaching the (period when these [occupied] governments must look forward to the re-establishment of their countries. I think it is wise for us to take up the military side of the restoration problems." The President made it plain that the "military side" (presumably cooperation with the underground, etc.) would henceforth be dominant. Other problems will be handled not by a new Ambassador-Minister, but only by charges d'affaires. Diplomats in London generally cheered. They agreed that the Allied Army's diplomatic record (in North Africa and Italy) could stand improvement. Free French, who count Biddie...
...Assembly unanimously asked the Allies to recognize the underground, give them arms...
...ruling classes walk toward the exit, plain Bulgarians are beginning to run. At the country's two political extremes stand: 1) pro-Nazi army commanders, intelligentsia, court figures around Prince Cyril, one of the three regents and brother of the late King Boris; 2) the Communist-led underground. Between stands a potential peacemaker: former Premier Nicholas Mushanoff, leader of the only legal opposition, the Democratic Party...