Word: macedonia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists had been cleared from the Peloponnesus, Central Greece, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace. Only 17,000 were left in the mountain strongholds of Vitsi and Grammos. Government generals sent the first units of their 65,000 U.S.-equipped troops into the Grammos sector, where the guerrillas had been expecting the main push. Five days later the government's main forces struck at Vitsi, split the Communist positions and cut off their westward retreat routes to Albania...
Marshal Tito, firming up his truculent stand against Moscow, spoke bluntly last week to army officers guarding Yugoslavia's border region of Macedonia, where Cominform agents are making plenty of trouble for Tito's regime. His words were really directed across the frontier at Bulgaria, and at Russia beyond...
Where Alexander Came From. When it became clear that economic pressure would not dislodge Tito, the Cominform decided on a more drastic strategy. The new base of operations against Tito's Yugoslavia was to be Macedonia, the wild, barren stretch of country which is distinguished in history chiefly for sending Alexander the Great into the world...
...Macedonia is divided among Greece, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia. The Cominform plan calls for the several parts to be united in a separate "free" Macedonian state (see map). This would isolate Yugoslavia by creating a link between Bulgaria and Albania (both loyal to Stalin), and provide a base from which well-organized Macedonian terrorists would try to foment rebellion within Tito's Yugoslavia. Last month the Communist Macedonian Peoples' Liberation front called for a "struggle to free the Macedonian people from Yugoslav and Greek domination." The Cominform's long-range goal was common knowledge, even in Belgrade: dismemberment...
...night of June 16 John secreted Bigart in a compartment, marked "reserved for invalids," of a train bound" for Macedonia. Next afternoon, at stocky, he was transferred to a battered UNRRA truck, and hidden under a tarpaulin. For the next eleven days, after dodging Yugoslav border patrols, he traveled by mule and on foot over rugged mountain trails, always in guerrilla hands, never sure that he would not meet the same fate as Polk...