Word: undergrounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...police are believed to number some 170,000 full-time employes, some 20,000 more men than there are in the regular army. Between 50 and 60 thousand are engaged in routine snooping and spying. The rest are mobilized in flying squads for mass arrests or operations against the "underground." The underground, official label for practically any group that opposes the Government, is also the official excuse for UB activities. The secret police may arrest without warrant anyone in Poland except district secretaries and higher officials of the Communist Party...
...Aviv, underground terrorists, from a nearby rooftop, machine-gunned and grenaded Citrus House, British Military Headquarters. Casualties: one British soldier, one Arab, one Jewish girl canteen worker, and a Jewish passerby, all injured...
During the war Gordon-Walker took an active interest in German anti-Nazi underground movements, and slipped into the Reich several times to contact the insurgents...
Premier Alcide de Gasperi could have sunk through the floor. The Soviet Government had caught the Italian police redhanded in the act of disseminating a confidential report that Russia was sponsoring an underground terrorist organization throughout Italy. Called the "Troika" (Russian for a vehicle drawn by three horses abreast), the organization was a ripe blend of Italian, Yugoslav and Russian comrades. In response to Russia's protest, Premier de Gasperi expressed "deepest regret." The existence of the Troika has been confirmed by the Italian police and by Allied intelligence services...
Eugene Lipman, educational representative of the Jewish Agency told of successful activities of the Haganah, the underground resistance movement in Palestine, in bringing European refugees to Palestine despite British attempts to thwart them...