Word: crete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Looking back upon the course of events, I can only feel ... if we had again to tread that stony path, even with the knowledge we possess today, I for one would do the same thing again. . . ." He promised to defend "to the death" Malta, Crete, Tobruch, the Suez and the Nile Valley...
...Athens rugged, bronzed, handsome General Giorgios Tsolakoglou denounced the flight of King George II to the island of Crete as cowardly, announced the formation of a new Greek Government headed by himself and an Army cabal. No man could say whether or not General Tsolakoglou was a quisling. For King and country the Army of Epirus had bravely fought the Italians for six months before he surrendered it to the Nazis at Salonika three weeks ago. With the departure of George II's Government and with the retirement of Commander in Chief General Alexander Papagos, somebody had to lead...
...mountainous, seagirt Crete, 150 miles south, King George's refugee Government speedily repudiated General Tsolakoglou. Last week no Nazi banners flew beside the cool flags of Greece rippling over Crete. But above the island's snow-streaked mountains, above its olive groves and fields of fire-colored poppies, roared the Nazi advance guard-dark Stukas and silvery Junkers bombing Greek and British transports and warships in Cretan harbors...
...order to drop them for our sappers so they would have demolition explosives. But the planes were shot down before they could do their work." Outnumbered numerically by at least 8-to-1, the R.A.F. planes in the end were further hampered by the necessity of falling back on Crete's airfields, so far away that most fighters had only 40 minutes' fuel over the battlefields...
...first three of these threaten Turkey. Samothrace and Lemnos can be used to choke the Dardanelles, and Mytilene lies very close to Turkey's west coast. The others threaten British shipping in the whole Aegean. Britain can have no power north of Crete now except naval power, and the occupation of these islands-and probable occupation of more later-threatens to clear Britain out of the whole region...