Word: balkans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great port of Naples and the great airfields of Foggia. The General's implication: these, more than any other prize, put Anglo-American forces in position for a flank attack on southern France and/or the Balkan Adriatic coast. Presumably from Foggia's web of runways last week, Allied planes thrust an arm over Marshal Tito's troops, hammered the Nazi rail junction at Sofia and dromes near Athens...
...Soviet Government's recognition of the Church has done more than restore Moscow as the capital of a religiously united Russia. It united Europe's Danubian and Balkan Slavs in a Slavic religious continent whose heartland is Rus sia, whose metropolis is Moscow...
Robert Donat plays the title role--that of a Balkan Man of Mystery whom everyone (except the audience) suspects of Nazi sympathies--and makes the most of his shadow-lurking appearances. His support, which includes spies, Gestape agents, saboteurs and the like--all a congenial crew--is adequate and, at times, pretty darn good...
...fronts. For nearly four years Britain (and, after Dec. 7, 1941, the U.S.) did not want Turkey in the war. The Western Allies had a good reason: they lacked the troops, planes, ships to protect Turkey against the Germans, or to make use of her strategic position in a Balkan campaign. In effect, during this welcome neutrality Turkey at war would probably have put a severer drain upon Britain and the U.S. than upon Germany. As late as last February, Churchill told the House of Commons: "It is not part of our policy to get Turkey into trouble...
Lost Chance. Since the Allies never really held the invaded islands, the loss was serious only because the abortive sorties had caused the Germans to look to their Balkan outworks. One possible effect was hardly mentioned: the effect on neutral Turkey. The Aegean fiasco might well slow the Turks' recent drift toward active collaboration with the Allies...