Word: undergrounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months the opposition in Brazil had been getting louder, bolder. There was talk of an underground political party, the National Democratic Union (TIME, Jan. i). Brazilians wondered, hopefully: was their Dictator Getulio Vargas growing old and gentle? The answer...
Still at large last week was Oswaldo Aranha, Brazil's great, pro-democratic foreign minister, who was driven from office last August by the Dictator's militarist henchmen. Still in command of his forces was popular Air General Eduardo Gomes, reputed presidential candidate of the underground opposition...
...Dictator's police tried to dam the tide of underground literature, including "suppressed" articles from U.S. magazines. At last, the Dictator yielded a trifle. His Minister of Justice and Labor, Alexandre Marcondes Filho, told reporters: "Elections are being studied. . . . The process will obey democratic norms...
...months - not only in Salvador but in Honduras, Nicaragua and Guatemala. The military rulers who survived the revolutionary purge killed, tortured, imprisoned hundreds of men & women, drove thousands into exile. The people continued to fight back with guerrilla warfare, bombs, strikes, captured Lend-Lease equipment, pamphlets - and even an underground radio...
...stood firm against the Nazis. With them stood a host of unnamed churchmen, like the 1,300 priests slaughtered in Poland, the priest and the pastor in Czechoslovakia who together faced a firing squad avenging the death of Heydrich the Hangman, and the French priest active in the underground who, warned of the Gestapo's coming, said, "I shall let myself be taken because I want the people of France to know there are priests too who are willing to give their lives. I ask only all your prayers that I may have the strength necessary to resist torture...