Word: undergrounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Resurrected (after twice being reported dead) but still underground: Subhas Chandra Bose, leader of the Japanese-supported Indian National Army and onetime president of India's Congress Party...
...partition plan was almost certain to split Jewish ranks. The extremist Irgun Zvai Leumi and Stern Gang, neck-deep in guerrilla warfare against the British, would turn just as eagerly on Jewish "appeasers." In a showdown, moderate Zionists would probably have the support of Haganah, largest of the underground groups. The compromise note was already sounded by "Voice of Israel," the Haganah radio station, which last week condemned violence and "purposeless terror...
London's Communist Daily Worker offered a sensational explanation: "Dewavrin had been hiding millions of francs in Latin America and Spain to finance a new underground in case France went Communist, or in the event of war between Russia and the Western powers. It is a current affirmation in circles close to the General [De Gaulle] that war against the Soviet Union is inevitable and that, when it breaks out, Spain will become the principal base from which the opposition will be directed against Russia and the democratic movement in France...
...Rome, enraged Italians promptly challenged him to duels. One challenge came from Lawyer Giorgio Mollica, 44, who has had five encounters with sword and saber on the field of honor, and wears the Italian Silver Medal for gallantry as an underground partisan behind the German lines...
...facts were few, but exotic. At Fountainebleau, Ho appeared as a saintly-looking little man who liked to present roses to lady reporters. He had started his underground political career 35 years ago at 19, when his radical father was imprisoned by an unsympathetic Viet Nam emperor. He ran off to sea, went to France at the end of World War I and under the alias of Nguyen-Ai-Quoc ( One Who Loves His Country"), became a Socialist, and later a Communist. Then he went to Moscow, where, under the alias of Song Man-tcho ("Mr. Song of Boundless Generosity...