Word: undergrounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...December, Robert B. Jung, a Berlin-born Czech who is a veteran of the anti-Hitler underground, started a new publication in Manhattan which will specialize...
...Explaining how the anti-Hitler underground operated...
Among the students in the first two years were ex-prisoners of war in Germany and ex-prisoners of war in America, underground workers, a Messerschmidt fighter pilot, De Gaullists, and Communists. All studied and lived side by side...
...companions include a battered newspaperwoman, a law professor substituting for someone else, a Swiss scholar who wanders into the hills and is murdered by partisans. Since the British government has no official knowledge og Scott-King's presence in the country, his is compelled to leave by the underground disguised as a nun, and is at length deposited at a small Mediterranean port among various royalists, anarchists, Pétainists, terrorists, ex-Gestapo men, Italian airmen, Turkish prostitutes, Hungarian ballet dancers and Portuguese Trotskyites. He winds up eventually at a Jewish Illicit Immigrants' camp in Palestine where...
...example of some the best in college humor is "At the Pleasure XXII." It treats, with outlandish seriousness, the recent Fisher Affair with its "Cloak and Dagger" aspects. The author presents some imaginary notes from the diary of the harried undergraduate underground organizer. "Wednesday. Enervated this morning. I think I am being poisoned by my enemies . . . To Students' Clinic in Hygiene Building, where examined after registering under false name . . . Retired early. Arranged some pillows to appear like sleeping form in my bed, spent the night on floor underneath...