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...Vitsi battle began shaping up just before the Grammos fight ended. At that time there were only 800 guerrillas in Vitsi. Now, 5,000 more, who escaped from Grammos into Albania, have joined them...
...recoup so quickly was explained last week by a Greek officer, who told this story of a guerrilla chieftain named Ypsilantis: "Last year 400 of Ypsilantis' band of 720 surrendered to me. By combat we reduced the remainder of his band to only five, and Ypsilantis fled to Albania. But I had also captured Ypsilantis' girl friend Sophia, who was very pretty. Seeing in her eyes that she was still with Greece at heart, I proposed to let her escape to follow Ypsilantis and report to me what he did. She went to Albania and sent...
...roads leading into Greece from its Communist neighbors, the guerrillas control five-two from Bulgaria, two from Yugoslavia, and one from Albania. One high-ranking U.S. officer said last week: "So long as it's Communist policy to disrupt Greece by permitting guerrillas to cross and recross the borders there will be war in Greece...
...Balkans. UNSCOB (United Nations Special Committee on the Balkans) is ready to submit a report giving solid evidence that Albania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia had aided the Markos guerrillas against the Athens government. It may throw some interesting light on whether aid from Yugoslavia has dwindled or stopped since Tito's country got kicked out of the Cominform...
...dead. Tito, once its most powerful member, is in disgrace. (The seat of the Cominform, has been formally transferred from Belgrade to Bucharest.) Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka, co-chairman with Zhdanov of the first Cominform meeting, has just been demoted after a row with Moscow (see below). Albania has been cut off by Tito's defection. Communist power in Czechoslovakia is not yet consolidated...