Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remarkable regularity at the rate of one every other day. British and Russian occupation troops, facing each other across the restive Greco-Bulgar border, were getting into each other's sphere of influence and into each other's hair. The controlled Yugoslav press, taking its cue from Marshal Tito's blast at Greek "terrorism" (TIME, July 16), screamed insistently about "20,000" Slav refugees from Macedonia. To Salonika from Athens hurried Premier Admiral Petros Voulgaris to make a personal investigation...
What was going on? The Greek Governor General of Macedonia said that no refugees were streaming into Yugoslavia, charged that Slav terrorists were raiding Greek villages. From Rome the Chicago Daily News's Balkan-wise Leigh White cabled: Marshal Tito had apparently launched his long-planned drive to expand federal Yugoslavia at the expense of Greek Macedonia. From Athens the New York Times's European Chief Cyrus Sulzberger reported: "There is a pattern behind these events linked to the politically homogeneous Governments of Greece's three northern neighbors [Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Albania], who are all ideologically tied...
Last August, under Marshal Tito's eye, 125 Macedonian delegates met at Bitoly in southern Yugoslavia, proclaimed an autonomous Macedonia with federal Yugoslavia. An Allied military mission looked on. A Macedonian Government is now functioning in Skoplje, in Yugoslavia, about 60 miles from the Greek frontier...
...Athens Regent Archbishop Damaskinos met attack with counterattack. For Greece he claimed the Epirus section of southern Albania, where "many of our people are suffering persecution" under Albania's Premier Enver Hoxha. Hoxha is believed to have somewhat the same relation to Marshal Tito that Tito has to the Kremlin...
...Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery's teetotalism, the town of Newport, England decided, is his own personal business. The Town Council rejected a proposal that all Newport citizens stick to orangeade and lemonade during the Marshal's visit there this month...