Word: elasical
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"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...
¶ In Athens, press officers of the U.S. Embassy and the American Mission for Aid denied correspondents' charges that Greece had no free press. "There is as real a freedom of the press in Greece today," said the official statement, "as there is in the U.S." It was an...
In the Rightist Manner. In Greece the British refer to the EAM-ELAS revolt as "The Trouble," the Americans call it "The Revolution," while the Greeks describe it as "The Mutiny."
¶What does the abbreviation ELAS
Dr. Dodge brought British supplies to ELAS hospitals herself. Her woman assistant spotted a coal heap, took a taxi out and shoveled it full. Dr. Dodge got the hospital staffs to throw out the fake patients and take care of the real ones. Again she got the Greeks to clean...