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Last week, the guerrillas' 105th brigade attacked government positions near Florina. It might be a diversionary attack to harass Greek army groups successfully mopping up Red pockets in central Greece, or it might be the beginning of a major spring offensive by the Communists. At any rate, the Greek army, which has heeded Soldier Van Fleet's advice, was ready. The attackers at Fiorina were driven back, with government troops in hot pursuit...
...Legless Men. When Van Fleet arrived in Athens 15 months ago, the Red rash was still spreading across the pockmarked face of Greece. After the first guerrilla victories, Russia had seen a chance to harass the West with turmoil and terror in Greece and to win a great Mediterranean base for communism. The obedient satellites on Greece's north provided arms and other material aid, sanctuary for hard-pressed guerrillas, hospitals, training bases. Whether they fought voluntarily or under duress, the guerrilla soldiers were Greeks. For Russia it was a cheap try for big stakes. In March...
Unchristian Idea. McIntire seldom misses an opportunity to embarrass and harass his opponent. A few days before the Assembly of the World Council of Churches met at Amsterdam last August, McIntire was in Amsterdam holding his own meeting of the "International Council of Christian Churches." Whenever he could get startled reporters to listen, he fulminated that the leaders of the World Council "include radical pacifists and socialists . . . This assembly is going to serve Communist ends." On such occasions, the American Council's impressive-sounding name often wins attention...
...Almost Martyr. The Word sent by Moscow in 1930 to the Communist Party, U.S.A. was: "Seize the streets." It meant: riot, raise hell, harass the law. If heads were cracked, so much the better; cracked heads made martyrs. In the first year of the great depression, California's population was resentful and disorderly. Thousands were out of work. The arm of the law was muscular and impatient...
...There is a fair number of gags, and almost all are funny, but there lies between them a dull story with dull people doing dull things. The greater part of the whole story unwinds in a single hotel room, where a bunch of unfunny, characterless politicians smoke cigars and harass the Senator. William Powell plays the title role, a sketchy part that is never developed into a sympathetic character, and one always feels the presence of the clever scriptwriter just behind Powell in the smoky hotel room...