Word: epirus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...army, 9th division, 43rd brigade. He can hardly remember a time when there was peace in his country. He has fought the Italians and the Germans, now he fights the Communists. A veteran of two years' warfare against the Red guerrillas, he has seen action at Konitsa, in Epirus, in the Grammos mountains, in the Peloponnesus. He does not know what became of his family; like hundreds & thousands of other Greeks, they fled from Red terror. They may be in a refugee camp; they may be dead. Some day, though he cannot imagine when, Georgios hopes to return...
Having failed last autumn to win Konitsa for a capital of his "free Greek" shadow state, Vafiades was now expected to try for loannina, capital of Epirus. He was also expected to attack Salonika; 30 miles from that strategic port, a village was seized last week by 350. guerrillas. Two important tobacco towns in Thrace, Xanthe and Komotine, were shelled for the first time by guerrilla guns. In Thrace, and other parts of the fighting zone, Communist-laid road mines were making serious trouble. General Alexander Assimak-opoulos, able commander of the government's Seventh Division, was killed when...
Guerrilla warfare in Greece's north continued. A high-ranking U.S. officer in Greece last week declared that there was merely a lull in the fighting. Terror still littered the countryside: last week, a picture from Yanina, in Epirus, showed two guerrillas identifying the severed heads of fellow guerrillas recently killed near the Albanian frontier. One of Greece's gravest shortages being transportation, the bodies were left behind...
...Greek Government did not seem to know exactly what was happening. It reported at first that its country had been invaded by a large organized force from the north. Some of the Athens communiqués sounded like war, some merely like more guerrilla fighting in Epirus. Whatever was going on, the U.S. Government made up its mind to prevent 1) a Communist overthrow of the Greek Government, or 2) establishment of a separate Communist stooge-state...
With Kisses. To whip up Royalist enthusiasm the royal couple this year have visited troubled Macedonia, Thessaly and Epirus. In Salonika Frederika plunged, over official protests, into the working quarter, won a few smiles and cheers from sullen leftists, was kissed ("from top to toe," she said) by working women outside an orphanage. When she left Salonika, a shopkeeper arranged a triptych of photographs in his window: Frederika flanked by Stalin and the Greek Communist leader, Zachariades...