Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sleeves Up. Italian Communists, rolling up their sleeves after a Party Congress in Milan, called strikes of workers ranging from stevedores to tax collectors. Embattled Greece was marking time-but fearful that the Greek army, victorious at Konitsa, would be unable to withstand the next guerrilla assault...
Christmas Eve in Athens was peaceful. On café terraces around Sintagma Square people sipped coffee in bright sunshine. Flower stalls did a rush business in hyacinths, violets and almond blossoms. Hardly anyone heard the guerrilla announcement when it was first made, because Athens has been jamming the rebel broadcasts from the north...
...news was relayed to the government of Premier Themistocles Sophoulis by an army radioman in Macedonia and by a destroyer which had picked it up at sea. A spokesman for General Markos Vafiades, guerrilla chieftain, had proclaimed formation of a new northern state -the "First Provisional Democratic Government of Free Greece." Chief of state: Markos Vafiades...
...urged all-out aid to China now-in arms as well as in dollars. The arms, he pointed out, were already available, scattered in U.S. surplus dumps throughout the Pacific. Much of it was light equipment, ideally suited to China's guerrilla-style warfare...
...best, there will be guerrilla attacks on Jews. At worst (unless U.N., having decided partition, enforces it), there may be general Arab-Jewish warfare as soon as the British leave. In Jerusalem last week a Christian Arab housewife looked down from her balcony on cheering Jews. "Let them celebrate today," she muttered. "Soon they'll all be dead...