Word: macedonia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bulgaria. Riots, mass arrests, assassinations of three pro-Nazi politicos in as many months embroiled the uneasy kingdom of Boris. Probably responsible for the systematic extermination of pro-Nazi leaders were Communists (especially strong in Macedonia) who were also skilled terrorists. Boris' Government declared a state of siege in and near Sofia, but the only solution for the Nazi overlords seemed to be complete occupation of the country before Allied invasion comes...
Darius of Persia first came into the valley of Kabul in the 6th Century B.C. After him came Alexander of Macedonia, Antiochus III of Syria, Genghis Khan, Tamerlane and Baber. Centuries later came the British; then the Russians; finally the Germans and Japanese. Last week, clutching his brief case in a car that pitched like a camel over the boulder-strewn Khyber Pass, came the American. He was balding, professorial Cornelius van Henert Engert, U.S. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Mohammed Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan...
Greek families are burying their dead secretly in order to use their ration cards. Bulgars, to whom Adolf Hitler threw Macedonia and Thrace, immediately slaughtered 10,000 Greeks, drove 70,000 more from their homes. Money cannot help; dead men have been picked up clutching large sums in their fists. The Italians cover the dead with cloth and carry them away; the Germans kick the dead in the gutter. Greece has many Lidices, towns razed and marked only by a sign printed on a swastika flag...
Meanwhile, in the harsh highlands of Greek Macedonia, a force of 15,000 men banded together, cut the short-cut railroad to the Russian front, via Bulgaria, in five places and attacked two Nazi troop trains, leaving 225 dead & dying Germans. From crag tops they rolled huge boulders down into narrow bends, stopped traffic along the only motor road to Bulgaria...
This greatly interferes with the successful prosecution of a war. . . . [If anyone] feels confident that he can give me good advice in the war which I am to conduct, let him . . . go with me to Macedonia. . . . If anyone thinks this too much trouble, let him not try to act as a sea pilot whilst he is on land. . . . Is that a classic? asked the President triumphantly...