Word: aegean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Since the barbarians carried the centre of power from southern to northern Europe she has been a pawn in all great struggles for power. Salonika is a back door to Central Europe, a jumping-off place to the Dardanelles and the Black Sea. Rocky Greek islands straggle across the Aegean to the shores of Turkey. The Peloponnesian Peninsula lies close to Italy; Crete, halfway to Africa. In this war Greece's fate was settled at Brennero on Oct. 4, when Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini planned their drive to the east. For Greece is the key to control...
...spot, Athens slipped word to Cairo, where Greek diplomatic quarters revealed the Axis price for peace: 1) immediate severance of economic relations with Great Britain; 2) cession to Italy of a strip of territory along the Albanian frontier; 3) cession to Bulgaria of a corridor to the Aegean; 4) permission to Italy to construct a military road from Albania to Salonika; 5) use of Greek air bases by Germany and Italy; 6) abdication of King George II and resignation of Premier John Metaxas...
...took when he conquered Rumania in 1916. But the main route to Istanbul leads through Belgrade to Nish and thence through Sofia and down through the rich Bulgarian plain and the Maritsa Valley. From Nish through another pass is a route down the Vardar River to Salonika on the Aegean, a port which would serve as one terminus of an alternate route, by sea, through Suez to the East...
...game that the dictators are playing in this area. More important it would keep the other dictators out of the Mediterranean which the Italians like possessively to call Mare Nostrum. If Mussolini took Bulgaria he would also have to have the port of Dedeagach on the Aegean Sea to give him access to his conquest without going into the Black...
Assumption Day. On the morning of Aug. 15, the old Greek minelaying cruiser Helle dropped anchor off the Aegean island port of Tinos, carrying an official delegation to participate in the celebration of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and bathe in the holy waters of that island. At 8:30, while crowds of celebrants strolled the harbor front, a torpedo clove the water beside the warship, exploded against a breakwater. A second torpedo missed the Helle and exploded before the village. A third found its mark, burst in the Helle's boiler room. The Helle sank an hour...