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The article presents world news briefs as of February 7, 1944. There are rumors that the U.S. State Department is unwilling to give arms to the French underground movement because some of its members are Communists. Two U.S. committees have been created to combat anti-Semitism. U.S. Vice President Henry A. Wallace is in favor of a constitutional equal-rights amendment.

Relates the experience of the author in visiting the Maquis, the hiding place of French underground groups, in Paris, France. Efforts of the group to guard their camps; Code messages and orders of the underground army; Total number of the underground army.

The article presents a chapter of the short story "No Surrender," by Martha Albrand, which deals with being involved in an underground movement.

The article relates the author's encounter with the Ware Group, a network of the underground American Communist Party. The party believes that it could penetrate the New Deal agencies with the State Department as a prime objective. The group aims to influence government policies especially in the fields of labor and welfare. The author photographed the confidential documents brought by the group's Alger Hiss, member of the Senate munitions investigating committee, and turned it over to the party.

Presents updates on the efforts of the National Committee for Liberation of Slovakia to end communism in the country as of December 29, 1951. Overview of the Slovak underground movement; Efforts of Badura, a Slovak farmer, to organize escape parties for villagers who are targeted for mass deportation by Russians; Information on the Liberty Legion.

Offers a look at the anti-capitalist semi-secret grassroots organization in the Soviet Union referred to as the League of Gracchus Babeuf. Historical background of the organization; Stance of the organization on capitalists and monopolists; Examples of Russian leaders who are considered capitalists; Information on the League pamphlet entitled "The International Capitalist Conspiracy."

Focuses on the solution of the long-delayed Polish question. Triumph of the Big Three due to diplomatic cooperation; Importance of the solution of the Polish question for the Big Three; Composition of the new government in Poland; Charges against the sixteen Polish underground leaders by the Soviet authorities; Allegations of the Polish Government-in-Exile of misinformation to the leaders concerning the intentions of Soviet Union in Poland.

Discusses the dissociation of the German people from Adolf Hitler, the Nazi dictator in the British propaganda circulating in the European world war. Distribution of subversive literature in Germany; Deathblow of the Russo-German pact to the underground movement among German workers; Support of the young people to the Hitler dictatorship; Reasons for the failure of the British leaflets in setting Germans against the regime; Need for the political propaganda to offer a peace with the German government.

Focuses on the political conditions prevailing in Cuba, with reference to the torture and murder of the author's Cuban friend. Contributions of the author's friend in the movement to overthrow Cuban dictator Gerardo Machado; Assistance given to the author by his friend in arranging interviews with the Cuban leaders of the patriots' movement who had gone underground; Account of the murder of the author's friend on a road outside Havana; Charges made by the Cuban Supreme Court and both houses of the Cuban Legislature for the military killings to the present government of Flugencio Batista.

The article offers information on the execution of Hocine Ait Ahmed and an officer named Si Moussa on the basis of leading an underground movement aimed at toppling the government of President Ahmed Ben Bella in Algeria. It states that the country demanded death sentences and added that the defense lawyers were in protest at the methods of the tribunal. It also notes the announcement of Ben Bella wherein he commuted the death sentences into life imprisonment.

Reports on the end of the rule of Spain's dictator, Francisco Franco. Struggle between a modern democracy in Spain working toward maturity and a remnant of feudalism struggling for survival; Intervention of German dictator Adolf Hitler in Spanish affairs, supporting the feudal forces in an effort to separate Spain from Western democracy; Information on political parties and labor organizations which form the Spanish underground movement known as the National Alliance of Democratic Forces; Problems faced by Spanish republic government; Role of United Nations General Assembly in solving problems in Spain.

Europe's fight is not merely a negative one -- against Adolf Hitler. The Nazis have taken away the opportunities for individual security inherent in every democracy. The immediate fight against Hitler is for the restoration of those opportunities; in the long run, it is for economic and political security, for the assurance that no man and no group will ever again be permitted to deprive millions of their sustenance. Every statement that has come out of the European underground has called for a post-war world in which there will be jobs for all workers, land for all peasants, and a vote for everyone. Two hundred million Europeans -- with the exception of a small clique of Quislings, traitors, and congenital scoundrels -- are united in the fight. Oppression, visited equally upon everyone, has put everyone on an equal plane -- spiritually, economically, and politically. Everyone to some extent has felt the deleterious effects of hunger. Everyone has seen, or has been subjected to, the ruthless, well-organized methods of the Gestapo.

The underground, guerrillas -- in a word, the forces of resistance -- are more than a subject of entertainment. They are more than propaganda. They are an essential part of a struggle whose eminently political character makes everything concerned with mass movements and popular reactions a matter of strategic importance. Only on the assumption that in this war, and in the peace to follow, the people have a greater role to play than ever before is the strengthening or weakening of the popular forces of resistance seen in perspective. It is just that determination to fight to the end that gives importance to the underground as the hour of invasion approaches. During its three years of existence the underground has passed through alternate periods of intense activity and transitory apparent repose. From the beginning it has lacked the support it could and should have received from abroad.

This article focuses on the book "The Silent War," by John B. Jansen and Stefan Weyl. A full story of the underground movement in Germany can be written only after the fall of national socialism. A wealth of documentary evidence is locked in the files and may be partly or fully destroyed in the grand finale of the regime. Some things that have escaped the records are known to the secret organizations which have continued from abroad their political activities in Germany, but they too are silent on such vital matters as the numerical strength, political influence and potential leadership of the underground groups.

The article focuses on underground operations in Europe. The effect of propaganda and wartime exaggeration in the first World War I is similar to the conflict of the European underground which was described in the book "Falsehood in Wartime," by Arthur Ponsonby. Maintenance of communication and supply lines with the world outside is the greatest underground problem.

Discusses the underground movement in Czechoslovakia. Announcement by the SS police chief at the Military Commander's Office in France of a modification of the hostage system in France; Installation of new commanders in the Grini concentration camp in Norway; Reports from the Swedish newspaper "Ny Dag" on an increase in railroad accidents in Sweden.

The article reports on the instruction of resistance leaders on how to observe the first anniversary of the Soviet invasion by turning the observance into a dignified national day of shame in Czechoslovakia. It states that the instructions include not using public transport, not patronizing shops or buy newspapers and wearing black arm bands. It notes that the anniversary may turn to violence despite the underground call for passive resistance.

The article focuses on the widespread underground churches in the U.S., secret movements with devoted intellectual Christians who worship together in informal ways particularly the Christian Layman's Experimental Organization (CLEO). It states that introspective quality was the religious membership's main weakness. Episcopalian Nightclub chaplain Malcolm Boyd believes that supporters claim that real Christianity and significant social participation can only be found outside traditional churches.

The article presents information on various developments. Showing of the Negro movie, "Cabin in the Sky," at the Maury Theater in Mount Pleasant, Tennessee, was halted half an hour after it opened. A mob gathered in front of the theater and its leader ordered the manager of the theater to stop the showing. The manager went to the sheriff and asked what he should do. The sheriff advised him to obey the mob; An Italian underground organization, Justice and Liberty, has recently sent a group of members from its U.S. branch to Italy, to continue their fight in the heart of the struggle.

The article presents the author's views on various issues of power in Germany, the United States and Russia. He comments on the probable efforts of Russian dictator Joseph Stalin to capitalize underground movements in various parts of the world. He expresses the need for the U.S. to play its cards right in its work with other nations for a cooperative democratic peace.

The article focuses on the claim that India deals with illusions. Indian dissenters decided to go underground due to repression in their country. The fifth column of Japanese is being done in the country. The conviction of the U.S. to free India from Great Britain is affected by the fact that Indian riots threaten the U.S. and England.