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Pyxos was one of many towns and villages which the victorious government troops had taken from the Communists in the Grammos-Vitsi area of northern Greece. German, Rumanian, British and Russian arms and ammunition were everywhere. A stone's throw from the Albanian border stood the rebels' propaganda headquarters, supplied with cameras, film processing shops, and printing plants. There was enough pliatsiko left behind to keep 400 trucks constantly on the move shifting...
...ceased completely, but Albania was still sending a steady stream of canned beef, jam, sugar, macaroni, guns & ammunition to the Communists' mountain positions. A U.S. officer inspecting the government's crack 9th Division in the Grammos sector saw heavy artillery fire directed against Greek forces from Albanian territory; a Dutch U.N. observer sitting on an upturned ammunition case neatly noted the positions of Communist guns in Albania. The Tirana radio last week charged that Greek government troops had invaded Albanian territory...
...Tirana, the tubby little ex-tinker Koci Xoxe met the ultimate end of all unregenerate purgees. Once the general secretary of the Albanian Communist Party, Xoxe was shot by a firing squad of the same secret police he had once organized. Also convicted of being "plotters against popular democracy," three other pro-Tito Albanians got stiff prison terms...
...Still more wretched than the dispossessed are the peasants who cling to their village. Thousands of them were impressed into the guerrilla forces. Some died horribly in the mountains, some who would not fight were penned like cattle in Albanian and Bulgarian camps...
...case involved Britain's $3,500,000 damage claim against Albania for two British destroyers which ran into a minefield in the Corfu Channel, off the Albanian coast (TIME, March 3, 1947). The trial, which dragged on for almost two years, was nothing to arouse a Chicago police-court reporter, but it had its moments. Britain's Attorney General Sir Hartley Shawcross told how the destroyers' explosion had killed 44 British sailors, and had injured 42 more. Albania, he said, was guilty of acts that "amount to murder." Although there was evidence that the actual mining...