Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Government planes had dropped a million leaflets over the rocky, sunbaked, guerrilla-infested hills of Thessaly, Macedonia and Thrace. Premier Sophoulis' leaflets offered amnesty to all who would turn in their guns. But in the northern hills "the word" had come by Radio Moscow, straight from the editorials of Pravda and Izvestia: no compromise; the fight goes on. Only a few hundred had trooped in from their hideouts to accept the amnesty which "liberals" in Western countries had demanded. Scoffed the Communist organ Rizospastis: "We welcome the leaflets which make badly needed tobacco wrappers, notepaper, fire starters and other...
...Communists use guerrilla tactics, moving swiftly and attacking at night, hiding in villages and resting in the day time. . . . They are attempting to bring down the Government not by destroying its armed forces but by wrecking the economic life of the country. Hence, they do not hesitate to burn towns and villages, destroy railroads . . . and blow up industrial installations, such as power plants, which they cannot carry away...
...forms of totalitarianism. A liberal foreign policy, while recognizing with Mr. Wallace, the deficiencies of our State Department and the past failures of our foreign policy, must still have the courage to recognize that on control of atomic energy, on the indiscriminate use of the voto, on the guerrilla warfare in Greece, on the setting up of police states in Eastern Europe, it is the Soviet Union which is at fault, and that the United States must take its stand in the United Nations against these Soviet policies in order to preserve a world of peace and social progress...
...Marshall said, would now place on the Assembly's agenda "the threat to the integrity of Greece." A Security Council commission and its subsidiary group, "by large majorities," had laid Greece's troubles chiefly to "the illegal assistance and support furnished by Yugoslavia, Albania and Bulgaria to guerrilla forces ... a hostile and aggressive...
...description of his typical guerrilla strategy: "To hold on to a city till death is just the same as carrying a burden. If we do not give up certain cities when necessary, we would be stuck and on the defensive everywhere. If we threw away these burdens when we should, and let Chiang Kai-shek take them up one by one, his burdens will grow until finally he will be unable to walk...