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Organized in North Africa and based in southern Italy, the Fifteenth was originally designed to pace a Balkan invasion. That project was dropped before Twining had had his B-17s settled in Italy...
What was going on? The Greek Governor General of Macedonia said that no refugees were streaming into Yugoslavia, charged that Slav terrorists were raiding Greek villages. From Rome the Chicago Daily News's Balkan-wise Leigh White cabled: Marshal Tito had apparently launched his long-planned drive to expand federal Yugoslavia at the expense of Greek Macedonia. From Athens the New York Times's European Chief Cyrus Sulzberger reported: "There is a pattern behind these events linked to the politically homogeneous Governments of Greece's three northern neighbors [Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Albania], who are all ideologically tied...
Russian interference in Macedonia dates from Tsarist times. After the Russo-Turkish war (1877-78), the Treaty of San Stefano, imposed by the victorious Russians, gave Macedonia to Bulgaria, practically converted the Balkans into a Russian-dominated great Bulgaria, with an Aegean coast line. Later, at the Congress of Berlin, Britain and Austria forced the Tsar to disgorge most of his Balkan booty. As a sop, they let him keep strategic Kars in Asia Minor (see below...
Wanted: Epirus. The overwhelming majority of Greeks did not want to lose Macedonia. The dominant Communist element in EAM lost popularity when it came out in favor of a "little Greece" and the cession of Macedonia to a Balkan federation. Last week EAM echoed the Belgrade and Moscow press: it publicly attacked the Voulgaris Government for promoting a "regime of terror...
...Rectification of Turkey's Balkan frontier. Apparently this meant the cession to Bulgaria of the Turkish Aegean port of Alexandroupolis (Dedeagach...