Word: elasical
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The situation there had grown almost out of control. The civil war looked as if it would last months, perhaps years. Four weeks of vicious battles between two sides, both of which claimed to serve democracy, had established that: 1) the British might clear Athens but ELAS firmly held the...
Still there was no pause in the Greek civil war. The truce talks continued. So did the shooting. Now Athenians in their cellars caught another sound in the cacophony of conflict: the whoosh of rockets from British strafing planes. In the barricaded streets and around the ruins on the storied...
But ELAS had their successes too. In the fashionable Kifissia suburb they dynamited their way into R.A.F. headquarters. In central Athens they stormed into forbidding Averoff prison. Scores of political prisoners passed from British to ELAS custody. Averoffs condemned quisling, potbellied, bemonocled Ioannis Rallis, bolted while the prison was changing...
By week's end the British had cleared about a third of Athens. But from Epirus in the northwest came a sudden yelp of alarm. General Napoleon Zervas, barrel-chested commander of the pro-Government EDES guerrillas, protested that ELAS forces had overrun eight villages in his territory. Next...
UNRRA Out. A prime casualty of the civil war was UNRRA. Last week, before it had begun its mission, it was ordered back to Cairo till the shooting ended. The little men & women of Athens, round whose homes the battle swirled, went mostly hungry. Inside their area the British were...