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...East and Africa came ruddy Colonel William Joseph ("Wild Bill") Donovan last week. Colonel Donovan had been on an assignment that any professional reporter would have given his left leg to get. He had been in England under bombardment, in North Africa with the British Empire forces, in the Albanian mountains with the Greeks. He had inspected ordnance, shipping, signal corps, maintenance depots. He had slept in sleeping bags, on desert sands, on the jogging backs of mules. He had talked to kings, prime ministers, generals, admirals. As a lawyer he was well equipped to digest what he heard...
...bloodless victory in the Balkans, the Government declared: "Greece has shown in the most definite way that any idea of armistice would find her disdainfully hostile." The heart was still fiercely hot in Greece's Army; it launched a violent attack along the entire central section of the Albanian Front, and within 48 hours announced the capture of positions which the Italians had spent months fortifying...
...ragged Albanian battle front, wherever the Italians tried to push forward, the Greeks pushed them a little farther back. In every sector they wiped out the few gains General Ugo Cavallero had made in a month...
Silently in the Adriatic dawn a British light squadron felt its way along the Albanian coast to Durazzo, the old brown town 80 miles up the coast from the Strait of Otranto. The destroyer Hyperion was far out in front, scanning for enemy MAS and submarines. Suddenly a mine holed her badly-too badly, clearly, for her to get back to the straits and away before the Italians found her. For two hours she held her S O S, so that the main force could finish its job of shelling Italian batteries on the Albanian coast. Then she called...
Last week, while the skirted Evzones hammered at Mussolini's Albanian Army, the greatest Greek since antiquity did his belated bit for Greece. For a great Greek, he was practically a modern, having been born on the island of Crete exactly 400 years ago. His name: Domenikos Theotokopoulos, nicknamed El Greco ("The Greek"). His aid to embattled Greece: a one-man show (the first and finest in the U. S. in many years) of 18 of his paintings at Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries, the proceeds to go to the Greek War Relief Association. The fanatic fire...