Word: undergrounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their first meeting the Generals brought the representatives they had agreed on after weeks of negotiation. For De Gaulle: Andre Philip, Socialist deputy in contact with the French underground, and Rene Massigli, veteran diplomat. For Giraud: Jean Monnet, able businessman, well known in Washington and London, and General Alphonse Joseph Georges, No. 2 in military command during 1940's lost Battle of France. As seventh man and balance wheel: tactful General Georges Catroux, chief intermediary in arranging the Algiers conference...
...Underground France would be immensely heartened. It would no longer be confused by diverse propaganda from Lon don and Algiers. Its power would grow...
Zygielbojm's wife & children perished in the terror that followed. But the Jews helped Zygielbojm to escape. He carried their appeals and exhortations to France, then to America and to Britain. There he became a member of the Polish National Council, was in continuous touch with the Polish underground...
...stubborn reluctance of the people of Sevastopol to leave their beloved city be broken down. . . . The Navy understood this, and with solicitude sailors carried up the gangway ancient models of sailing ships, knickknacks, family portraits framed in lifebelts, old seascapes." When the destroyer left, before dawn, Voyetekhov went underground to Naval headquarters, nerve center of the defense. Among the activities directed there was a system of salvage from sunken supply ships in the harbor. Divers were sent out every night to bring up baskets full of shells, food and medical supplies. Voyetekhov's narrative here includes one of several...
They will help the Fascists to remain in control of the press, the associations, the assembles, the trade unions and local and central government. Italian democrats who come to the fore from the underground will have to swallow a more or less disagreed by product of the Fascist dictatorship and it they do not do the swallowing with suffices good grace they will go to jail waving large flags emblazoned with President Roosevelt's famous "four freedoms everywhere in the world...