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Plato may have got his idea of a lost civilization from the Minoan Empire in Crete, which collapsed about 1400 B.C. Or he may have heard about Tarshish (Tartessos), a thriving city outside Gibraltar which sent "gold and silver, ivory and apes and peacocks" to the lush court of King Solomon...
...Crete Underground...
...stupidity, and cupidity, culled throughout the world by an impressively multifarious staff. . . . But the one truly great event of the week-indeed, of the entire postwar period so far-is not even mentioned. I refer, of course, to the magnificent gesture of the survivors of the heroic Underground of Crete . . . who, by refusing Allied compensations almost to a man, gave to us all the privilege of holding our heads a little higher...
...Mother. It was not surprising that The Goddess of Crete (known variously as the Triple Goddess, the Earth Mother, the Snake Goddess-see cut) was the hit of the show: she had a long, ancient history of success...
...Panzer divisions pushed into Yugoslavia (Wavell's men, fresh from beating the Italians at El Agheila, made a gallant but hopeless attempt at rescue; three weeks later they were fleeing from the beaches of Greece, seven weeks later half the survivors were exterminated in the island of Crete...