Word: aegean
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...battle, a sight rarely witnessed by U.S. newsmen. In Rumania he lunched with young King Mihai and Queen Helen, got the King's own story of how he had trapped Antonescu. En route back to Turkey he joined the British troops clearing the Nazis out of their Aegean outposts...
Straight from the bickering Balkans comes an editor who spent nine months as a correspondent in Turkey, Bulgaria, Rumania and the Aegean Isles - Percy Knauth . . . From the battles in Italy and southern France comes a Senior Editor fresh from his second wartime assignment to Europe - John Osborne . . . From Egypt and the Middle East comes a TIME correspondent who has been on the Dark Continent all his life, most recently in Cairo -who knows Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Transjordan, Tripolitania and the Sudan intimately and uncomfortably - South African-born John Barkham . . . And from buzz-bombed Britain comes the man who has been...
Said Bulgarian Prime Minister Kimon Georgiev, whose country is controlled by the Red Army and Communist-dominated Partisan bands: "I can definitely state Bulgaria will create no difficulties." But Greek Macedonia is the richest of all Greek provinces and includes the big Aegean port of Salonika...
Beacon of the German exit was smoking, demolished Salonika (Thessalonike), chief port of Macedonia. It was through Salonika that the Germans had supplied the Aegean islands, through Salonika that they moved back out of the Mediterranean. The "coveted city" that "crouches on the edge of the hill and touches the sea with her feet" is a major Balkan port, served as an Allied base in World War I. Destroyed by a famous two-day fire in 1917, it was rebuilt as a modern city. Last week it was a shambles again; more than 50 ships had been sunk...
...mobilizing all his forces to prevent the enemy from escaping. Coming to help him were the Russians, who had rolled past Sofia across Bulgaria to within 200 miles of the Adriatic. If an Allied landing now followed in the Balkans, the Germans left in Greece and the Aegean would be cut off, like the Germans in southwest France. Then Yugoslavia and the Hungarian plains would offer Allied armies an open invitation to Budapest and Vienna...