Word: border
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tolling Bell. In the last few weeks help of a more substantial (and, for the Greek army, more ominous) kind has been piling up on Greece's northwestern borders. Over the two main roads leading to villages on the Albanian side of the border, there has been a steady movement of convoys bringing up supplies. Nightly their lights bob and weave among the hills. Nightly mule trains wind across the rough hill tracks into Greece. Villages on the Albanian side of the border, for a depth of 30 miles, have been practically cleared of civilians...
Last week, the blood-boiling sympathy bloomed even brighter. Along the border between the U.S. and the Soviet zones, Russian soldiers were digging trenches. The Communists called a convention for April 14, to form a "Korean People's Republic," i.e., an all-Korean Communist regime. Anybody was welcome who for one reason or another did not like the Americans or the free elections they proposed to conduct. U.S. occupation authorities did not restrain any Korean politicians who wanted to accept the invitation. Said one U.S. spokesman: "It might be a good thing for them to go north and find...
Later, some 70,000 non-Communists stood before the old German Reichstag, listening to Socialist Leader Franz Neumann. Pointing to Berlin's historic city gate, on the border between the U.S. and the Soviet sectors, he cried: "There stands the Brandenburger Tor. One hundred years ago it was the border of Berlin. Now it is the border where freedom ends...
...home village of Yannitsa in Macedonia, chestnut-haired Chryssoula Ransou, 19, had joined the Communist Youth because "it was fashionable." Chryssoula had been ordered to duty at a rebel base hospital on the Yugoslav border. There, Chryssoula, who had promised to marry a boy in Yannitsa, learned about the new rebel marriage rules...
...They can search the whole Mediterranean Sea for a small boat-load of illegal immigrants, but they say they cannot patrol the few miles of the Palestine border...