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...them in advance of general publication and, as printed in TIME'S August 23, 1948 issue, they were the first complete summary of this revealing correspondence. Other Low stories that you may recall include his account of the Communist guerrilla raid on the Greek town of Naousa (TIME, Jan. 31), and Patriot George Magalios and the American aid program for Greece...
...Vermion Mountains a few miles away, the Markos guerrillas heard of the festival. Through the passes mule trains began to move, some carrying ammunition and food, others empty and ready for loot. Supported by heavy machine guns, bazookas and mortars, 3,000 rebels attacked in foggy darkness. Before morning Naousa was in Communist hands...
Down from the Mountains. Last fortnight Naousa was gay and proud. The town's civic center, decked with Greek and U.S. flags, was renamed Truman Square. General James A. Van Fleet was on hand for the ceremonies. The town's young mayor, Nikolas Theophilou, thanked him for U.S. aid; the general praised Naousa's garrison for bravery against the enemy...
Every shop in Naousa was plundered, even the barbershops, from which razors and hair tonic were carried away. The two-story hospital was blown up with land mines. Nine factories were destroyed, including a textile mill which employed 1,000, the biggest in the Balkans. When a workman asked why the means of livelihood of innocent people should be thus snatched away, a rebel answered: "How else are we going to get you people to come to the hills with...
Brandy for the Dead. When government forces finally reached Naousa, they found funeral services in progress at the cemetery. The resonant chanting of priests was intermittently drowned out by the wailing of black-shawled women. Some of the dead, laid out in open clapboard coffins, had ears hacked off, eyes gouged out. In the ruined hospital, strewn among wrecked operating tables and X-ray machines, were blood-soaked and bullet-riddled mattresses-proof that the sick and wounded had been shot...