Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...singing of old party songs about "my dear little Markos." There were still no songs about the new guerrilla commander, Georgios Vrontissios, alias Goussias, a former printer whose mustache is considerably less impressive than his predecessor's. According to the likeliest of many conflicting reports from the frontier regions, aid to the rebels from Tito's Yugoslavia seemed to have stopped almost entirely, although Bulgaria and Albania were faithfully carrying...
Even with the most successful summer campaign Van Fleet does not think that the guerrillas can be finally defeated this year, but his plans call for cleaning them out of all Greece except the northern frontier areas. Actually, some military observers believe that Van Fleet is too optimistic, that the guerrillas will continue tormenting Greece as long as they are supplied and equipped from abroad. Last week Van Fleet still stood by what he had said when he first came to Greece: "My advice to the rebels is to give up now. Either stay and get killed...
Dutra was born 64 years ago this week in the frontier town of Cuiabá in cattle-raising Mato Grosso. He describes his father as "a small businessman and later a public functionary-but always poor." Young Eurico joined the army at 16 and wangled an appointment to its Preparatory School of Tactics at Porto Alegre. After graduation, he moved on to Rio's Escóla Militar, only to be expelled seven months later for his part in a student rebellion against compulsory smallpox vaccination. A government amnesty let him return. Two years after graduation...
...years before, Franklin Roosevelt had kicked up a national uproar when he was quoted as placing the U.S. frontier on the Rhine. But this time Bradley made his point from the lesson of recent history. The invasion of Normandy, Bradley reminded his listeners, had cost 21,000 U.S. casualties in the first ten days. The North Atlantic Treaty was the surest way to save the U.S. from making another such bloody invasion. Said Bradley: "I don't believe any nation would attack such a combination of friendly countries...
...Helmstedt, main crossing point on the Soviet-British frontier, workmen and soldiers had hurriedly installed radio and telephone equipment, repainted border signs, clipped weeds at the sides of the long unused highway. The British announced that the first train would be for military passengers and correspondents. Later in the day, ten trainloads of coal and six of fresh potatoes and other goods would reach the city...