Word: macedonia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russia was believed to have an eye on both last week-by direct demand on Turkey for special rights in the Straits, and indirectly, through Yugoslav pressure on Greece, for control of Macedonia. Turkey's eastern frontier was also inflamed (see below), while Moscow's Pravda underlined the withdrawal from Iran of U.S. troops (which had been supplying Russia with Lend-Lease) by a blast against the Iranian Government. Farther east, the overheated Russo-Chinese relations promised to cool as, after a fortnight of negotiations in Moscow, China's Premier T. V. Soong flew east to Chungking...
...forces had fired across the Yugoslav frontier in an effort "to provoke us." Thousands of Macedonians, he said, had escaped into Yugoslavia to escape Greek terrorism. "Our soldiers," Tito added, "have not replied with a single shot." At the same time Moscow, which last week reported similar atrocities from Macedonia, announced that the National Front Government of Federal Macedonia had protested to the Yugoslav Government that "fascist" Greek organizations, supported by units of the Greek Army, were carrying on a reign of terror. The Macedonian organization, said Tass, official Russian news agency, described the terror as comparable in savagery...
Were the Greeks clearing Macedonia of everyone who is not a Greek citizen? Or was the Government of Marshal Tito, which long ago included part of Macedonia in its plans for a federated Yugoslavia, preparing to carry out its plans? It was still too soon to say. But there was little doubt that terror of one kind or another was sweeping Macedonia...
...link with EAM." Salonika representatives of ELD, SKE and the Agrarian Party (another EAM group) declared that the civil war had been caused "by the irreconcilable policy of the Communist Party." They warned that Bulgars and Yugoslavs had been fighting with the ELAS forces and that Greece might lose Macedonia or Thrace to Yugoslavia or Bulgaria...
...Russian-controlled Sofia radio, meanwhile, broadcast an appeal to ELAS to try its hostages as "war criminals," enemies of the people of Athens. It also launched a drive for an autonomous Macedonia (which might include Greece's No. 2 port of Salonika), with a capital at Skoplje-which is in Yugoslavia...