Word: northern
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...determined to stop aid to Greek guerrillas from Greece's northern neighbors, but it would work as long as possible within the U.N. framework. Last week the first step was taken. Greece, charging that there had been a breach of peace, invoked Chapter VII of the U.N. Charter. Under that chapter the Security Council can apply economic or military sanctions against Albania, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria if they continue to support armed aggression against Greece. If the international brigade moves into Greece, and Russia vetoes action under Chapter VII, the U.S. is prepared to take step two: invoke Article...
...hinting it might veto, managed to delay the U.S. proposal. Washington let it be known that the 2nd Marine Division and the 82nd Airborne Division in North Carolina were standing by. These two units should be enough to handle whatever forces General Markos Vafiades, the Communist guerrilla leader in northern Greece, had at his disposal...
...ready for that kind of international politics? One American who visited Athens last week found members of the U.S. military mission well-intentioned, sincere and technically able. But they cherished an awesome ignorance of the political side of their job. Said a colonel: "Conditions are quite disturbed in northern Greece. You can even get shot at-but perhaps you have heard of it." Said another officer, who is helping train the Greek Army: "I almost never read the news. It might distract me from my work...
Meanwhile the council received an interim report from the subsidiary group of the Balkan investigating commission on recent developments along Greece's northern border. The report was restricted to a summary of testimony taken in its on-the-spot investigation of Greek charges that an international brigade had entered Greece from Albania...
...hiding place he sent a message to the Communist paper Rizospastis, calling for the "creation in free democratic areas of Greece of a free democratic government." This week the Greek Government announced that forces had crossed the border from Albania to join guerrillas fighting the Greek Army in northern Greece. Moreover, the Government claimed, a leftist international brigade including men recruited from all over Europe was gathering in Albania. While the U.S. Congress delayed in voting the aid to Greece which President Truman had called for three months ago, Communists were acting to split Greece, bring the northern part within...