Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...headquarters of "Free Greece," which the Greek national army captured last week from the retreating Red guerrillas. Pavlides and his comrades were joyfully poking around among the neat little pine-board chalets (which had housed Nico Zachariades, John Ioannides and other Communist guerrilla leaders), looking for equipment and stores left behind by the fleeing Reds. They found everything from Czech motorcycles and electric sewing machines to frilly underwear for the andartissa (female guerrillas...
...from the Communists in the Grammos-Vitsi area of northern Greece. German, Rumanian, British and Russian arms and ammunition were everywhere. A stone's throw from the Albanian border stood the rebels' propaganda headquarters, supplied with cameras, film processing shops, and printing plants. There was enough pliatsiko left behind to keep 400 trucks constantly on the move shifting...
...victory had its grim side. Except for a few old men & women, there were no inhabitants left in the region: the Reds had taken all able-bodied men & women with them. In Krystallopigi, 88-year-old Vassilis Claras explained: "The day before the government army came, the Communists gave us orders to cross into Albania, because the Monarcho-Fascists would kill us. I told them I was an old man and didn't care whether I lived or died-so I stayed...
...door of a two-story stone house. It read: "Friends, please do not remove the few remaining articles from this house. It's mine. I'm a soldier." Vronderon was Lazanis' home, which he had not seen in four years. The house was all he had left: his wife and children had been carried off by the retreating guerrillas. Lazanis told a visiting U.N. Balkans Commission team that 'his family was "over there," in Albania. "Please," he begged, "can't you get them back...
Britain's literate, left-wing New Statesman and Nation, which is apt to make rude noises at all critics of Socialism (particularly if the critics are American), has discovered that in Socialist Britain the good old manners have gone to hell. A New Statesman essayist who sounded just a little like a learned Colonel Blimp charted the decline & fall of civility in Britain...