Word: undergrounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seen. Above his officer's pinks and forest-green shirt he wore the most dazzling decorations (the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Purple Heart). He had lived through the most spine-tingling experiences imaginable, on all possible battlefronts (strafing Nazi tanks in North Africa, being rescued by the French underground after a crash landing in occupied Europe, shooting it out with Jap Zeros over the South Pacific). When red-haired young Holdeman spoke at war-bond rallies in Booneville, Tupelo, Okolona and a dozen other towns, women sobbed openly and strong men rose en masse to subscribe the limit...
...Free Will." Last August the French underground newspaper Resistance predicted that Vichy would do exactly what Vichy seemed to be doing last week: i.e., make a show of democratic repentance, against the day when the Allied armies and anti-Nazi Frenchmen liberate France. Said Réesistance...
From rugged Epirus eastward through the towering Pindus range to the plains of Thessaly, Greek met Greek. The presence of the Nazi clouded the issue, but did not hide the fact that the killing of Greeks by Greeks had to do with the shape of postwar Greece. Underground leftists fell upon rightists and middle-of-the-roaders.* Adventurers mingled with zealots, monarchists tangled with republicans, professional soldiers fought guerrilla bands. The Germans alone profited from the mellay...
...Most potent Greek underground is the Leftish EAM (National Liberation Front) with its guerrilla army, the ELAS (People's Liberation Army.) The EDES (National Democratic Army), under "General" Napoleon Zervas, occupies a middle ground. The EKKA (National and Social Liberation), headed by a mystery man called Colonel Psarros, is at present inactive but potentially rightish. As with most undergrounds, definitions are fluid, subject to change without notice...
Beneath such pinpricks lay serious grievance. Said a French underground Assembly delegate: "I have heard a member of the American Diplomatic Corps here say that we French are now only little boys. That is a view we cannot accept. To Frenchmen, you Americans are still the Americans of 1918. But Americans no longer regard us as the victorious Frenchmen of 1918. Yet we are the same France today. If this paradox is recognized, we can resume the friendly relationship to which we aspire. Today Frenchmen are suffering-and so we are very sensitive." A French resistance leader, recently arrived...