Word: balkans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German massing in Bulgaria, just across the Turkish frontier. The Allies were alarmed by reports that Turkey, on peaceful assurances from Germany, had signed a treaty with Germany and Bulgaria calling for the rebuilding of bridges across the Turkish-Bulgarian border which had been removed during Germany's Balkan advance last spring...
Moore-MacCormick ships used to dock with hams from Gdynia, cheese and tinned fish from Norway, fancy breads from Sweden. American Export freighters brought snails from Casablanca, almonds and wines from Marseille, chestnuts and anchovies from Genoa and Naples, figs from Smyrna and Piraeus, Balkan herbs. Along Manhattan's South and Washington Streets, around 200 brokers large and small were having their Christmas rush, their warehouses full of sugar and spice...
Significance. Europe's revolt against Adolf Hitler was not one movement, but many. In Yugoslavia it was hot, open civil war, abetted by traditional Balkan Pan-Slavic sympathies. Soviet Russia even spared "a certain number" of bombers to aid the insurgents. In Czecho-Slovakia it was the discovered sabotage of highly organized underground rebels as the high rank of many of the condemned suggested. Widespread in Europe were examples of that single zealotry of which Paul Collette was the prime symbol...
...scarfaced Dr. Karl Clodius has long been Adolf Hitler's successful advance man in the Balkans. His luscious blonde "assistant," Edith von Koehler, has long impressed Balkan social circles, which never tire of blondes. But last week Edith von Koehler was not in Ankara and Turkish Government circles were not impressed by Dr. Clodius...
...communiques early in the week; with the prisoners from the Ukraine, his total moved over the million mark. In the last war, the Russians had one and one half "blood casualties" (killed and wounded) for every prisoner loss in the early, mobile phases.* In last spring's Balkan campaign, the Greeks, where they fought hard (in the Struma Valley, for instance), had about three and one half blood casualties to every prisoner loss. Supposing the hard-fighting Russians to have suffered at least two blood casualties to each prisoner loss, total casualties early this week would...