Word: undergrounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After World War II a joint Anglo-American inquiry committee recommended that 100,000 more Jews be admitted into Palestine in 1946. Zionists took to organized violence to spur British action. The British answered by trying to suppress the Jewish underground...
President Truman last week told Zionists that it was "his determination" that the British move against the underground should not delay "a policy of transferring 100,000 Jewish immigrants to Palestine with all dispatch." The nettled British promptly let it be known that in that case the U.S. would have to send troops to help keep peace in the Middle East. That the U.S. could or would send troops to Palestine was most unlikely. President Truman, with the Zionist outcry in his ears today, could well imagine the din from other pressure groups tomorrow if U.S. soldiers were killed there...
More successful than his venture into military mutiny was a clandestine newspaper which Rousset published during the war. His researcher's soul was annoyed because the Germans falsified business statistics and economic facts. To keep French businessmen from making mistakes, he operated a sort of underground Wall Street Journal...
...object," said Lieut. General Sir Alan G. Cunningham, High Commissioner of Palestine, "is to restore those conditions of order without which no progress can be made toward a solution of the problem of Palestine." In fact, the object was the broadly based Jewish underground Haganah, responsible for illegal immigration of Jews, which has worked closely with the Jewish Agency. Haganah has insisted that its wellarmed, well-organized secret army exists only for self-defense against possible Arab attack...
During the Nazi occupation, most of France's freedom-loving journalists went underground (25% were collaborators). They met secretly in hotel rooms and cafés in Paris and Lyons to devise strategies for the day of liberation. On Aug. 21, 1944, their hour came: they descended on the Havas building, arrested the collaborationists on duty there, started printing Paris' first uncensored papers to appear above ground since...