Word: macedonia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Polk left his Salonika hotel. He never came back. Three days after he left, his wife arrived from Athens, expecting to join him for a short trip into Macedonia. She found his typewriter and other equipment in his room; that ruled out the theory that he had already gone on his mission to Markos. The same day, police got his identity card in the mail...
...strange but vigorous aviary includes other breeds. Some are "slavo-phones," Slavic-speaking people of Macedonia lured by Communist promises of an autonomous Macedonia. Some are simply bandits. More & more new "recruits" are conscripts, shanghaied into the guerrilla forces by raids into their villages...
...Salonika last week, the huge concert studio of Radio Macedonia had been turned into a makeshift courtroom. Fenced in by a net of chicken wire, 128 rebel prisoners, captured after the shelling of Salonika last month, hunched together in close-packed seats. The judges, nine army officers, sat on the stage. Around them was stacked the evidence: rifles, machine guns, grenades. A mountain howitzer poked its muzzle out beside a grand piano...
...home village of Yannitsa in Macedonia, chestnut-haired Chryssoula Ransou, 19, had joined the Communist Youth because "it was fashionable." Chryssoula had been ordered to duty at a rebel base hospital on the Yugoslav border. There, Chryssoula, who had promised to marry a boy in Yannitsa, learned about the new rebel marriage rules...
...tough opponent in Vafiades, who uses the nom de guerre of "General Markos." Born 41 years ago at Kastononv, in Asia Minor, he worked as a bricklayer, painter, carpenter, grocer boy, street vendor, real-estate clerk, army private, tobacco worker, journalist. In 1924 he joined the Communists in Macedonia and edited a Communist workers' publication. His police file shows that he has been jailed at least eight times since 1929; that he is 5 ft. 7 in. tall, lean and muscular; that he has blue eyes, wavy chestnut hair and a mustache that takes up where Stalin...