Word: balkans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days later the first ground troops arrived by sea on the west shore, made a de luxe landing. They not only found planes of their own Balkan Air Force operating from airfields ahead of them; they also found supplies and fuel neatly arranged in dumps and not a German in sight. Said one officer: "When those fellows got off the boat on D-day they even had mail waiting for them. . . . The only casualty in the whole operation...
...attack appeared to be part of the Hungary operation, and the swing northward to Germany's side door. Another drive toward Nish, an important position on the Athens-Belgrade railroad, seemed designed to cut off the last Germans in Yugoslavia and Greece. Malinovsky was liquidating the Germans' Balkan venture, with yeoman help from Tito's Partisans and the British in Greece. But while he was carrying out this politico-military mission he was not forgetting the main job. Germany would feel the heavy hand of his army...
...Vest-Poclcet Force. The Land Forces of the Adriatic are actually a small unit of British Commando troops, paratroops and special service forces under command of a British Army officer. It was organized formally about four months ago and placed under the Allied Balkan Air Force. It is based in Italy and works closely with the navy and air force in order to move back & forth across the Adriatic. Its first major mission was July 29, an attack on the Albanian coast, and it now operates-necessarily thinly-over a front about 750 miles long...
Russia's Red Army lunged last week across the Danube into Yugoslavia. British forces landed on the coasts of Albania, on the islands of Dalmatia, inched into Greece. From two sides of the Balkan massif, Europe's two greatest powers were approaching a junction in the Balkans. Waiting at this mountainous meeting place of empires was a man who had newly risen into political history after a cryptic lifetime in the political underground: Yugoslavia's Marshal Josip Broz Tito. Tossed up suddenly in the slipstream of military and political movements, he was as little familiar to most...
...what would Britain say? Britain had supported Tito as an expediency of Empire politics. But Tito's loyalty was to Moscow, not to London. It was sound policy for the Russians to refrain from setting up Communist governments in the Balkan states now occupied by the Red Army. In fact, the Russians were acting with ostentatious correctness. They had even asked Marshal Tito's permission before sending the Red Army across the Danube. But Britons would be less than empire builders if they were not aware that, in the cold-blooded language of politics, the Balkans had become...