Word: undergrounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ambassador Arthur Bliss Lane stayed away from the Parliament's opening, a mild underscoring of their Governments' protests that it was unfairly elected.* To answer that charge, Poland's Government announced that 68 of its Electoral Commission members and guard had been killed "by the underground" during the election campaign. Mikolajczyk had said that 18 of his party's workers had been killed or died of "mistreatment...
...months ago, London refused large scale immigration into Palestine "because of the large British army that would be required there to keep peace." Yet today, there is a British army of well over 100,000 in the Holy Land whose apparent function is to wipe out the Jewish underground. If the British could succeed in this venture. Palestine would house a permanent Jewish minority. Naturally, the Arab League, even if cut off in Palestine, would make its weight felt throughout the other British interests in the Middle East. After five years, the Arab majority and the British Government would probably...
...tense Palestine recalled that Irgun Zvai Leumi, underground group committed to active resistance against the British, had threatened reprisals "as soon as a military court condemns one of our soldiers...
...actively combatting anti-Semitism, an evil deeply rooted in the Polish scene, has created a wealthy, influential, and fanatical opposition. The purpose of this opposition is not the reconstruction of Poland but the reestablishment of the landed and military nobility that for so long dominated that country. Their armed underground has, it is said by the government, slain over five thousand officials and citizens in the past month. Observers hold it also responsible for the program in Kielce last summer and for most of the anti-Semitic activity that has ensued. Unfortunately this traitorous opposition has insinuated itself into...
...tried to slit his throat (afterward, he always wore a scarf and became known as The Man with the Muffler). Eventually, De Gaulle charged him with coordinating all of France's hopelessly scattered resistance knots. The result was the National Council of Resistance which unified all underground activities. It was at one of the council's meetings (at Caluire-et-Cuire, near Lyons, on June 21, 1943) that Max met René Hardy. That meeting was raided by the Gestapo, and all the men there were arrested. Now René Hardy was accused of tipping off the Gestapo...