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ATHENS--Cooperating Greek and British planes were reported today to have raided Koritza. Italian invasion base in Albania, surprised the Italian airdromes there, and destroyed seven...
...Italians, of course, blamed Greek "armed bands" and agents. Denial of the affairs by the Greeks went unheard, their offers of discussion were turned down. Within a few hours Mussolini and Hitler had one more conference, at Florence (see p. 28), and Italy's war machine in Albania began to roll. Greece was soon officially charged not only with local violence but with plotting to give Great Britain the use of sea and air bases for operations against Italy. At 3 a.m. on Oct. 28 the Puccini-loving Italian Minister handed to Greek Premier General John Metaxas a three...
...Japan did not know whether it was in on this latest war or not. Its attitude toward Greece would be "considered from a practical political standpoint, not in the strict literal sense." Since Albania, an Italian possession, was "attacked" by Greece, Japan dishonored her five-week-old mutual-defense pact with the Axis by not going to Italy...
...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...
Reports in Balkan capitals indicated that the Axis meant business, that three divisions of crack Nazi troops had arrived in Bari on Italy's heel and were being ferried across to Albania...