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Italy's war in Ethiopia and her Spanish blunders provided him invaluable information, and the construction of Italian highways through Albania to the Greek frontier revealed Mussolini's plan of conquest...
Clinging "flowing" to the around peaks, positions that avoiding did not valleys, fall quickly, attacking constantly, his tough little Army soon cleared Greece of all but dead and captive Italians, carried the war into Albania. Deprived of its great strategist, Greece still has his plans worked out in minutest detail. Future success will depend on the ability of Commander in Chief Field Marshal Alexander Papagos to execute them without the lashing vitality of Banker Little at John the behind...
Last week initiative in Albania passed to the Axis. Each day Greek communiques spoke of Italian counterattacks, fiercer and better planned than any that had gone before. The biggest Italian effort seemed to be aimed at Corizza, on the northern sector of the front, which the Greeks occupied when the war was a month...
...pass, a bomb dislodged a huge boulder, blocked a highway and trapped a convoy of 100 trucks, which the Greeks said they bombed to destruction. The Greeks still had things to laugh about: they heard that the new Italian Commander in Chief, Ugo Cavallero, had chosen to go to Albania the safe way-by land through neutral Yugoslavia, disguised as an engineer...
...there was an even more ominous sound than the crescendo of Italian guns. It came from Rome. It was a hint that the main thing Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini discussed in their meeting on Jan. 20 was a joint general staff. This might mean substantial German help in Albania...