Word: macedon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...says he thinks) that Greece has nothing to fear from Russian aggression, got a dose of Greek history last week. At a Washington banquet of the Greek fraternal order of Ahepa, Manhattan Lawyer Dean Alfange dusted off the story of Aeschines (389-314 B.C.), an apologist for Philip of Macedon. Said Alfange : "Today .. . Philip is Joe Stalin and I don't need to tell you who Aeschines...
...Athens." A friend of Winchell wrote the columnist that he was now being denounced as a warmonger, just as Demosthenes had been 2,300 years ago. To drive home this point, Winchell devoted a column to excerpts from Demosthenes' speeches to the Athenians against Philip of Macedon...