Word: northern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Athens' Acropole Palace Hotel, a U.N. commission was hearing witnesses on Greece's imbroglio with her northern neighbors. From Washington came an Olympian statement from Secretary of State Marshall, welcoming Greece's new coalition Government but warning that it must put Greece's chaotic house in order before it could expect more U.S. help...
Well-trained guerrillas from Russia's satellite states infiltrated into Greece's northern provinces, fanning Greece's chronic civil war. By diverting the energies of the Greek Government from the desperate domestic situation to the fighting in the north, the Communists were constantly worsening that domestic situation and gaining supporters among Greece's disgruntled, hungry people. The exasperatingly slow and petty testimonies before the U.N. commission did not tell the real story of Greece's tragedy. Outside the Acropole Palace's heavy brown curtains the streets of Athens told far more...
...proliferating ministries from 43 to 15. Mark Ethridge cleared the decks for action by the U.N. commission (which had so far been bogged down in endless, petty testimonies) by obtaining unanimous agreement to limit witnesses' time to one hour, and by sending field teams to the troubled northern border. Greece at last had a coalition Government. The new Premier, in place of Tsaldaris, was frail, ailing ex-Banker Demetrios Maximos, a nonparty ex-royalist. The new Government, promising to review the case of all political prisoners, made a start by releasing women & children. But civil strife, which had slackened...
...both nations have been experimenting to see how machines would function and how men could live and fight in the Arctic. The Canadian Army's "Musk-Ox" expedition (TIME, Feb. 25, 1946), on which U.S. observers went along, was one test. So was the U.S. "Operation Frostbite"-the northern trip of the aircraft carrier Midway, which carried a Canadian observer. The U.S.Army's midwinter tests of men and machines in 60°-below-zero weather in Alaska and in the Aleutians this year also have had Canadian observers on hand...
Looking around at what many fanciful talespinners had described as a northern Shangrila, Berton came to this solemn conclusion: "O credulous and gullible world . . . the vale that set your soul aflame with the fire of adventure exists only in your own imagination...