Word: piraeus
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...Feldman who used to live in our apartment house?" It was. And Barmine soon became aware that he must pay the usual price for knowing a liquidated man. Soon his comrades in the legation tried to lure him aboard a Russian ship which had unexpectedly appeared in the Piraeus...
...Almost all police stations in Athens and the Piraeus had been occupied or stormed by ELAS forces, some with the slaughter of every single inmate. Firing was widespread throughout the city. It was growing; it was approaching...
...British high command and the Greek Government, buzzed with rumor. An EAM emissary, hefty, handsome Miltiades Porphyrogenis, made his way across the urban battle lines to the headquarters of British Lieut. General Ronald Mackenzie Scobie received from him the British terms for an armistice: ELAS troops in Athens and Piraeus must yield their arms, evacuate the area. Two days later, EAM countered with a three-point demand for an amnesty, an all-party Government, a regency...
...Stadium area, in the park east of the Arch of Hadrian and the Temple of Zeus. Both sides were still trying hard not to damage monuments that had survived 2,000 years of human havoc. As the eighth bloody day ended, ELAS still held the port of Piraeus (the Allied food ships had anchored, for safety, outside the harbor), and most of the police stations in Athens. ELAS casualties already numbered around 4,000. General Scobie gave no figure for his casualties, said only that he had received no "peace proposals." ELAS called up reserves; the Government called up four...
...most dramatic stories told about the Archbishop's fight against the Germans: when 18 Greeks had been sentenced to death in Piraeus as hostages for the death of a German soldier, the Archbishop went to the commandant in Piraeus, literally forced his way inside, and told him the condemned men had families. "How are they to be cared for?" the prelate demanded. The German replied he could not do otherwise because he was under orders to execute 18 persons in reprisal-if not these particular victims, then an equal number of others. Said the commandant: "You give the names...