Word: balkans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...diplomacy, not only stopped talking about the huge force the British were supposed to be landing at Salonika, but even lent credence to "reports in Egypt" that now the Greeks were going to help the British in Libya. He wrote: "The British ... as well as Greek troops must abandon Balkan aid and rush to the weakened, endangered Wavell Army...
...even the strongest assurances of Greek resolution could scarcely have been more than a partial relief to Anthony Eden's-and Britain's-Balkan anxiety. For last week another potential bar to Adolf Hitler's southeastern drive-Yugoslavia-seemed likely to prove just about as flimsy as Bulgaria proved a fortnight...
...Field kitchens, supply trucks, oil-tank cars and uniformed war correspondents followed the mechanized fighting forces. In both Bulgaria and Rumania air bases were being multiplied, often with conscripted Jewish labor. Bulgaria's surgeons, doctors and druggists were mobilized for medical service. In command of the Nazis' Balkan operation was Field Marshal Siegmund List, veteran of the invasion of Poland...
...spoke out strongly. Through George A. Vlachos, Greece's leading editorialist, the Greek Government cried: "Our Army will fight on, if necessary, in Thrace as it has in Epirus, and Greece will show the world how to die as she has shown it how to fight!" But widespread Balkan reports had it that the Nazi diplomats were especially hard at work in Greece, persuading her that it was unnecessary to die. They wanted Greece, it was said, to make an "honorable" peace with Italy and allow Germany to consolidate a Salonika Front before the British could...
...over Sofia's roofs. Except for their ear-splitting drone the city was quiet, and along the sunny boulevards many shopkeepers unfurled the swastika. As the Nazi columns rolled into his capital, Boris of Bulgaria remained immured in his yellow palace and thought nervous thoughts. As the shrewder Balkan politicos remarked, it was all a foregone conclusion...