Word: epirus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From a bleak stone cottage in Epirus came news that shook the Greek exile Government apart. After 20 days of wary talk in the shadow of the snowy Pindus Range, Greeks in Greece clasped hands, agreed to drop their fratricide, devote themselves henceforth to killing Germans. Greeks in Cairo lost their nerve, began last week a game of tag which left them all demeaned...
From rugged Epirus eastward through the towering Pindus range to the plains of Thessaly, Greek met Greek. The presence of the Nazi clouded the issue, but did not hide the fact that the killing of Greeks by Greeks had to do with the shape of postwar Greece. Underground leftists fell upon rightists and middle-of-the-roaders.* Adventurers mingled with zealots, monarchists tangled with republicans, professional soldiers fought guerrilla bands. The Germans alone profited from the mellay...
...surrender to the Germans, four couriers chug-chugged by motorboat to the Greek mainland, put-putted by motorcycle to Yanina in Epirus, where their conquerors waited. The same evening Corfu authorities received a telegram accepting their submission...
...Tsolakoglou denounced the flight of King George II to the island of Crete as cowardly, announced the formation of a new Greek Government headed by himself and an Army cabal. No man could say whether or not General Tsolakoglou was a quisling. For King and country the Army of Epirus had bravely fought the Italians for six months before he surrendered it to the Nazis at Salonika three weeks ago. With the departure of George II's Government and with the retirement of Commander in Chief General Alexander Papagos, somebody had to lead the conquered for the conqueror...
...accompanied by any public statements that she would be willing to help the Greeks or British. Only Greece spoke out strongly. Through George A. Vlachos, Greece's leading editorialist, the Greek Government cried: "Our Army will fight on, if necessary, in Thrace as it has in Epirus, and Greece will show the world how to die as she has shown it how to fight!" But widespread Balkan reports had it that the Nazi diplomats were especially hard at work in Greece, persuading her that it was unnecessary to die. They wanted Greece, it was said, to make an "honorable...