Word: undergrounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...imagination . . . be called an honest fulfillment even of the Yalta agreement . . . described by President Roosevelt as in some respects a disappointing compromise on the Polish question." They urged (among other things) that the Big Three conference agree to: 1) the release of the twelve members of the Polish underground convicted in Warsaw of sabotage against Russia; 2) an election law that would guarantee a fair election in Poland; 3) the withdrawal of the Red Army from Poland before the election; 4) the right of correspondents and the Red Cross to circulate freely in Poland...
Wherein had the doomed men failed? If no better, they were not visibly worse than their Warsaw rivals. Nor were they merely reactionaries, as their enemies often charged-blind upholders of the old ways, the old traditions, the old foundations of Europe's civilization. Through their underground in Poland and their army (about 250,000) in Italy and elsewhere in Europe, through their intrepid air force, they had waged war against Germany until the end. But history was against them. Their country lay in the onward path of Poland's traditional enemy, Russia, which now embodied...
...commercial trade unions were organized under a joint Communist and Social Democratic trade-union committee. Its leaders, both fresh from concentration camps, were Communist exReichstag deputy Roman Chwalek and Social Democratic trade-union leader Otto Brass, who for several years served as chief of his party's underground work in Nazi Germany...
When it finally got started, ABSIE clicked. Operating over twelve transmitters on two medium-and five short-wave BBC frequencies. ABSIE was run much like the BBC - with similar news programs, propaganda talks and instructions for the underground, all relieved by much good music...
News was the main item on the daily (eight-hour) fare. ABSIE broadcast the news in seven languages, and also presented at dictation speed a special program of news for the use of the underground press. ABSIE puffed up its straight news reports with talks by such exiled leaders as King Haakon and Jan Masaryk...