Word: eam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opposed the Nazi-led occupation (he sheltered Athens' Jews, offered himself as a hostage, went to the Germans carrying a rope and dared them to hang him). As regent (1945-46) and short-time Premier (two weeks in 1945), Damaskinos tried to make peace between the left-wing EAM and right-wing Monarchists, retired when a plebiscite recalled the late King George...
...that melancholy trek to his Greek "homeland" where he had no home, known as the "exchange of populations" after the Greco-Turkish War. Other Communist leaders were spawned in that tragic migration. Nicolas Zachariades, father of Greek Communism; Demetrios Partsalides, who became head of the Communist-front EAM; Petros Roussos, who became editor of Rizospastis, principal Communist newspaper in Greece; Roussos' petite, intense wife Chryssa Hadjivassilou, who now likes to think of herself as Greece's Ana Pauker...
...They imprisoned me ten times," he reminisces. His last and longest imprisonment, from 1938 to 1941, began under the Metaxas dictatorship, ended under the Nazis. He escaped from the Germans in 1941, helped to organize the resistance group EAM and their army ELAS. He became kapitanos of the "Macedonian Group of Divisions"; in October 1944, as the Germans withdrew from Salonika, Markos entered the city as liberator without firing a shot. He, not the Greek resistance's commanding general, led the parade, wore the hero's laurel wreath, took the public bows. He then set himself...
Roundup In Athens. Four days after the news from the north, the government outlawed the Communist Party and the leftist EAM, and even "sympathizers" were threatened with severe penalties. In Athens some 500 Communists were already under arrest as a result of an episode three weeks ago when a policeman saw three men get out of a taxi carrying a suspicious cloth bag. When he tried to question them, they shot him dead, then fled through the ruins at the base of the Acropolis. (The cloth bag, it turned out, contained arms.) One of the three, a Communist hatchetman named...
Last Maneuver. If Bulgaria takes the lead in recognizing Markos, other Russian satellites will almost certainly follow. U.S. State and War Department observers in the Balkans were frankly worried over the prospect of the move. They believed that Markos' offer to down arms provided EAM ministers were taken into the Greek Government was probably the last political maneuver the Communists would make before stepping up guerrilla activities in Greece. Said one high-ranking U.S. Army officer: "Markos would probably be willing to settle for the Ministries of the Interior, Justice, War and Communications. But if we fall for that...