Word: macedonia
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...Venizelos' side were the mixed races of the Greek islands and of Thrace and Eastern Macedonia on the mainland, whence come Greece's crack troops, the kilted Evzones. For money he had his wife's fortune, estimated at $15,000,000, inherited from her father. He soon had the armored cruiser Aver off and the cruiser-minelayer Helle, either one of which is capable of blowing the rest of the Greek Navy out of the water. His best card was his battle cry that he was saving the Republic from the monarchist machinations of Premier Tsaldaris...
...Greek Civil War's land front was drawn last week along the River Struma in Eastern Macedonia, famed for non-Greek wars in 42 B. C. and 1917 A. D. Day after day General Kondylis announced, "We have crushed the rebels." Day after day, rain, snow and sleet froze the two armies in their tracks in the shadow of the mountains of Boz. Both sides fought best with rumors: that Venizelos had been wounded by an airplane bomb; that he had fled to Egypt; that the Averoff had been sunk; that the rest of the fleet had gone over...
...Venizelos' greatest political strength has always been in his native Crete and among the Macedonian mountaineers along the northern frontier. Macedonians too are the best-known troops in the Greek Army, the be-tasseled, be-kilted Evzones familiar to all tourists. Other plotters had been at work in Macedonia where rebellion spread like quicksilver. They were less successful with the white-kilted Evzones. The Athens detachment rebelled tentatively, was quickly subdued with a few volleys of gunfire. Next morning other Evzones regiments were patrolling the city beside loyal Tsaldaris troops...
...Macedonia, always a hotbed of intrigue with an indescribably mixed population, is now the storm center of the civil war. Bulgaria, deprived of a Mediterranean port after the World War, is hovering over the afflicted territory like a bird of ill-omen. Turkey, Jugoslavia, and Italy undoubtedly would not resist taking a morsel of Greece if it were dangled before their eyes. The one hope that Greece has of setting her affairs without interference and loss is to enlist British support. The British watchdog, with a sentimental interest since Byron and a commercial interest antedating that, has already growled...
...consequence of these factors, the unrest over Macedonia, and constant party struggles, Tsankoff has for some time been urging the formation of a non-party government and a corporative parliament. The results are, of course, unpredictable, but the history of the dictatorships in Greece and Yugoslavia makes it seem unlikely that the Bulgarian experiment will be immediately successful. ZENO...