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...modern times they fought in 1896-97 over Crete, which eventually went to Greece after a brief spell of independence, and in 1920 over Izmir, a Turkish province on the Aegean...
...Pappas told TIME last week. "Our colleagues, and some of our best friends, had been arrested. As their commander, I had to make a decision, and I saw before me two choices: I could have taken my ship with its 8,000 rounds of high-explosive ammunition back to Crete or some other Greek island and demanded the release of those officers under threat of blowing the place up. But rather than risk starting a civil war. I chose to bring my ship into Italy and ask for asylum here to tell the world the truth of what is happening...
Slothful. There is also more in the endless procession of campaign histories, represented this season by a capable but rather specialized volume, Nazi Victory: Crete 1941. And of course, one genuine clunker, priced at $6.95, from Coward, McCann & Geoghegan. Called Hitler's Last Days, it is the brief but mesmerizingly dull memoir of a minor staff officer named Gerhard Boldt, who, as it turns out, constructs Hitler's very last days from already published sources-since he was not there...
...restore democracy. But nothing happened. The U.S. Government, despite a few gestures of disapproval by isolated Congressmen, not only continued but increased its military aid to Greece, even as the American people were being told that there was an embargo on arms shipments to Greece. The island of Crete is being turned into a NATO nuclear base. Presently the U.S. is trying to secure permanent home port facilities in Piraeus and other major Greek ports. And with troubles in Turkey, Greece is becoming the whorehouse of the Sixth Fleet...
What about Plato's insistence that ancient Atlantis sank from sight "in a day and a night"? Minoan Crete did nothing of the kind, of course, but Santorini did sink. Moreover, its sudden destruction brought down Crete, and with Crete went the whole Minoan civilization...