Word: macedonian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...escape under cover of grenades thrown by fellow conspirators, but no grenades were thrown. His fellow conspirators had planned that Asho should be killed by guards' bullets. On his dead body was found an Arab talisman bearing the words: "Kill, thou shalt be safe." In 1942 the Macedonian who attempted to murder Franz von Papen, then Nazi Ambassador to Turkey, was given a contraption (allegedly by Soviet agents) which, he was told, would produce a smoke screen to cover his escape. When the assassin touched off the "smoke" bomb, it blew him to pieces...
Next day, before a mass meeting celebrating the second anniversary of the purchase of the national railways from Great Britain, the inspired Evita turned again to Alexander. This time she recalled an occasion when the Macedonian hero was facing a horde of Persians and was sagely advised by General Parmenio to attack by night, since his forces were weak. "If I were Parmenio, I would do so," cried the conqueror, "but Alexander never conceals his victories...