Word: wintringham
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Died. Thomas Henry Wintringham, 51, tough, battle-scarred veteran of the Spanish Civil War International Brigade (he commanded the British battalion) and military author (Armies of Freemen, 1940; People's War, 1942); of a heart ailment; in Barnetly, England. A natural soldier, Guerrillista Wintringham (who was expelled from the Communist Party in 1936 for disobedience) compressed his fighting experience into a slim 25? handbook, New Ways of War ("a homeowner's guide to killing people without getting killed...
...Common Wealth Party is the brain child of pious Sir Richard T. D. Acland, M.P., who believes socialism is the modern embodiment of Christian principles. He resigned from the Liberal Party to form the Common Wealth with Guerrilla Warrior Tom Wintringham, Independent Progressive M.P. Vernon Bartlett and Writer J. B. Priestley. Bartlett and Priestley quickly resigned...
...find out how militia methods have changed since the Revolution, two Committee members, Lawyer John K. Howard and H. Wendell Endicott (Endicott-Johnson shoes), visited Britain last year. They were impressed by the Home Guard School conducted by Guerrilla Tom Wintringham for the British War Office (TIME, May 25). Last week came the result: on the velvet-lawn-and-colonial-brick campus of Middlesex School at Concord, Major General Sherman Miles, Commander of the First Corps Area, abetted by the Committee, opened a tactical school. Purpose: to teach guerrilla-warfare methods to State Guards. The Commandant is Lawyer Howard...
...Yank Is Cunning. Ace instructor at the School is Bert ("Yank") Levy, guerrilla virtuoso, onetime Wintringham assistant, and author of Guerrilla Warfare (TIME, Mar. 16). Levy is a dramatic, 120-pound, black-haired expert on the art of unmodified murder whom the British regard as a delightful combination of Daniel Boone and Jack the Ripper. His muscular nose was flattened and given a starboard twist in either World War I, a Nicaraguan revolution, the Spanish War or in one of his many personal encounters in civilian life. Levy specialties, as taught in both Britain and the U.S.: use of incendiaries...
...midst of these shouts, the Guard grew. Tom Wintringham gave it a training pattern in his guerrilla school at Osterley Park, the estate of the Earl of Jersey and his U.S. wife, onetime Cinemactress Virginia Cherrill. There in weekly batches Home Guard officers were trained in mak-ing hand grenades, using Molotov cocktails, wrecking tank treads. After a year of fighting for more armaments and more accent on guerrilla tactics, Wintringham resigned. The War Office, which suspected his politics, was glad to see him go. He was replaced by a safe man-Major General Viscount Bridgeman, the mild-mannered, sharp...