Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Athens' swank Grande Bretagne Hotel, someone slipped a note under the door of the suite occupied by Lieut. General James A. Van Fleet, the U.S. commander in Greece. The note appeared to have been written in blood. It bore the crudely lettered words, "Tomorrow you die," and a picture of a blood-dripping dagger...
Athens was already nervous because of a renewed flurry of Communist sabotage. Some unguarded telephone stations had been blown up, and Communist pamphlets were attacking the new government, U.S. aid, and-most venomously-General Van Fleet, who was referred to as "Murderer Van Flit." Towering, husky Van Fleet, who led a regiment across the Normandy beaches in 1944 and rose to be a division commander in four months, was not alarmed by the threat on his life, but the Athenian authorities were. How had the note-bearer escaped the vigilance of two detectives constantly on guard in the general...
Down from the Mountains. Last fortnight Naousa was gay and proud. The town's civic center, decked with Greek and U.S. flags, was renamed Truman Square. General James A. Van Fleet was on hand for the ceremonies. The town's young mayor, Nikolas Theophilou, thanked him for U.S. aid; the general praised Naousa's garrison for bravery against the enemy...
...they were still short of details. Not even M. Besse's closest friends seemed to know where he had been born. He had gone to the Middle East as a young man, made most of his money in hides, skins, coffee and the operation of a fleet of merchant ships. It was said he had been born a gypsy, that he owned half the city of Aden, the rocky British colony at the edge of the Red Sea. During the war he had been anti-Vichy, had donated ?10,000 to British war relief...
This use of the additional newsprint stirred up a bitter argument in Fleet Street pubs like the Codgers and the Two Brewers. Exploded one news editor: "After all our outcry for more paper, what do we do with it? Throw it away on women's tripe, godawful strips and shoddy fiction!" Replied a feature editor: "Go bury your head! Variety, entertainment, interest . . . Let's shovel it in by the bucket...