Word: aegean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Samos and Mytilene (where Sappho was born). After a trip from Smyrna on a Turkish steamer past the islands, Correspondent Ray Brock concluded: "The entire Near East is probably secure [from Axis attack] until the spring of 1943. . . . The enemy, from Rhodes in the Mediterranean to the vital inner Aegean bases, is probably more vulnerable to Allied sea and air attacks than since . . . the spring of 1941. . . . Informed sources . . . talk confidently of the spring of 1943 as the time of the Allied blow to regain Aegean footholds as jumping-off places for an invasion of the Balkans...
...Pushman studio on Manhattan's 57th Street, shrouded in a velvety dimness, are all the beautiful things which Artist Pushman loves and exquisitely paints. For 20 years they have been appearing in his still lifes: tiny porcelain vases, lustrous Aegean flasks, Tibetan figurines, pieces of splendid brocade, the yellowed pages of ancient books. In his tallboy, lined with crimson plush, are row upon row of Buddhas, Oriental gods of war, of laughter, or mercy, of unimaginable things. Mr. Pushman says gently...
...third approach, one that may be the most dangerous of all, if Egypt falls and the Nazis control the inner Mediterranean. The man waiting on that approach is the Luftwaffe's General Alexander Löhr, commander of all German forces in the Balkans, Crete and the Aegean Islands. A solely airborne thrust from Crete to the British island of Cyprus and on to the Syrian mainland would be difficult and costly, and it may be beyond the resources of the strained Luftwaffe (see p. 38). But General Löhr will be in a better position if Rommel...
From the time of Peter the Athonite to Adolf the paper hanger, the great rocky promontory of Athos, jutting into the Aegean like a prong of Poseidon's three-forked scepter, has been a place of refuge -for men only. No woman has knowingly been allowed to desecrate by her presence the huge cluster of monasteries atop the Holy Mountain, where bearded, black-cowled priests withdraw from worldly pleasures in the spiritual home of the Greek Orthodox Church. Even female cats and dogs and beasts of the field are barred, "so that their mating may not furnish an outlandish...
Rommel's push might be the southern prong of an Axis drive for the Middle East, with the north prong aimed at the Caucasus and perhaps a central prong from Greece and the Aegean Islands through Turkey. If so, the capture of Tobruk would be just an opening puncture for Rommel, as the capture of Kerch had been an opening puncture for Field Marshal Dieter Wilhelm von Mannstein. Or it might be merely an attack to test the British strength and prevent the diversion of British units to Syria...