Word: aegean
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...Bulgaria's bald, 49-year-old King Boris III journeyed last week to Adolf Hitler's general headquarters. Hitler reportedly demanded: 1) six Bulgarian divisions for the defense of the Black and Aegean Sea coasts; 2) five additional Bulgarian divisions to replace an equal number of Germans in Serbia, thus easing Hitler's critical war manpower situation; 3) curfews, civilian evacuations and other extraordinary measures in Bulgaria's coastal areas. The Germans apparently expected an invasion through Bulgaria into middle Europe. Boris also understood the possibility. Bulgarians were asked "to endure with patience and calmness...
...correspondent of the Hungarian Pester Lloyd on a trip through Thrace reported last week that the frontier area was speckled with innumerable, brand-new bunkers. Minsker Zeitung, a German paper in Occupied Russia, featured stories about mighty new fortifications on the Aegean islands, including Crete. In Yugoslavia, the SS division Prinz Eugen was last week winding up a month's campaign in which it claimed to have recovered half of the Partisan-freed territory, including the capital, Bihac. The south of France was being additionally fortified...
...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...
...roads, railways); that they were rebuilding the Greek naval bases at Salamis (which the Luftwaffe wrecked in 1941); that Luftwaffe General Alexander Löhr had air forces and airborne troops waiting. London and Washington last week found it hard to believe that the Germans had actually stripped their Aegean defenses; perhaps the forces there had only been redistributed. Or perhaps the story was true, and the Germans were throwing everything into another drive on Egypt, to precede a general Middle Eastern offensive...
...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...