Word: crete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain. It hinted, in fact, at a southerly diversion before invasion. Roads to the south of Berlin were jammed with military matériel, moving south. German air tactics appeared in Greece and Libya (see p. 22). German airplanes based on Sicily continued active attacks on Malta and Crete. The British, now familiar with the Hitler reconnaissance pattern, could only suspect that a southern campaign would be a sure indication of an imminent attempt at invasion...
Late in the week, Berlin announced that dive bombers had come upon a British convoy west of Crete, and in the ensuing attack had scored "severe bomb hits of heavy and medium caliber" on the stern of one battleship, forward and starboard on another battleship, and also on a heavy cruiser...
Last week, while the skirted Evzones hammered at Mussolini's Albanian Army, the greatest Greek since antiquity did his belated bit for Greece. For a great Greek, he was practically a modern, having been born on the island of Crete exactly 400 years ago. His name: Domenikos Theotokopoulos, nicknamed El Greco ("The Greek"). His aid to embattled Greece: a one-man show (the first and finest in the U. S. in many years) of 18 of his paintings at Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries, the proceeds to go to the Greek War Relief Association. The fanatic fire...
...appointed lean, hard-boiled General Ettore Bastico, 64, a veteran of the 1911 war with Turkey in which the islands were acquired, veteran also of World War I, Ethiopia, the Spanish Civil War, in which his "volunteers" captured Santander. Cut off from home by the British blockade out of Crete, General Bastico's new berth will not be cushy...
...always; 2) it had failed to intercept another shipment of British war materiel and man power to the Middle East; 3) operating from Naples or Cagliari, it cannot defend Italy's oversea supply line to Africa as well as it could from Taranto before the British got into Crete...