Word: balkans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What George Polk (see above) and every other Balkan correspondent yearned to do, the New York Herald Tribune's Homer Bigart up & did. He found and interviewed Greek guerrilla General Markos in his Grammos Mountain stronghold. This week, after sitting on it for more than a fortnight (presumably to avoid competing with convention news), the Trib ran his interview as a four-part series. It tingled with some of the cloak-&-dagger thrills of an Eric Ambler novel...
Bigart was warned to employ the strictest konspiratsia, "that favorite Balkan term for secrecy." Next day the stranger brought a guide, a stocky, studious youth named John. He told Bigart to buy a ticket to Rome and get an Italian visa, to make things look legitimate, then...
...Cominform had stated with blunt finality: "There is no place for the [Roman] Catholic church in the Balkans." Hungary was not strictly Balkan, but it was in the Cominform orbit. Last week Hungary's Communist government won a victory over Hungary's Catholicism. In the midst of the fracas, trading punch for punch, was Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, a tough prelate in a tough spot...
...been nonobjective, cynical and, before the war, appallingly venal. Several influential national dailies (la grande presse) were potent enough to topple governments. But the French coined the ugly term la presse pourrie ("rotten press") for those that sold out to big business or to Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Balkan countries...
Nowhere on the continent of Europe is the outlook for students more grim than on the troubled Greek peninsula. A World Student Relief investigator wires from Geneva that an undeclared Balkan war, corruption in the home government, and only pitiful and halting efforts at economic recovery make the task of assistance overwhelming...