Word: epirus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wanted: Epirus. The overwhelming majority of Greeks did not want to lose Macedonia. The dominant Communist element in EAM lost popularity when it came out in favor of a "little Greece" and the cession of Macedonia to a Balkan federation. Last week EAM echoed the Belgrade and Moscow press: it publicly attacked the Voulgaris Government for promoting a "regime of terror...
...Athens Regent Archbishop Damaskinos met attack with counterattack. For Greece he claimed the Epirus section of southern Albania, where "many of our people are suffering persecution" under Albania's Premier Enver Hoxha. Hoxha is believed to have somewhat the same relation to Marshal Tito that Tito has to the Kremlin...
...Prime Minister is short, shifty-eyed Admiral Petros Voulgaris. He harps on two points: 1) the need for "security"; 2) the right of Greece to northern Epirus. now a part of Albania. When I asked what he thought of Americans and Britons in Greece, he said: "I wish they would stay here forever." There is only a handful of U.S. soldiers; the British have several divisions...
...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 day he abandoned his headquarters at Ioannina...
...York Timesman A. C. Sedgwick reported: "While the Greek Government holds sway in Athens and its environs, the remainder of the country except Epirus ... is virtually a Communist province...