Word: piraeus
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Greece, free of the Germans, was rapidly occupied by the British. Athens and its port of Piraeus were entered by British troops after the Greek flag was hoisted by patriot fighters. The British aim was to: 1) prevent internecine war between left and right; 2) maintain Britain's influence in a traditionally close Mediterranean country; 3) provide food, clothing, medicine...
Bishop Panteleimon also told of a youth who was charged by an Italian court-martial with attempting to blow up two boats in the harbor of Piraeus. "Excuse me," the young man interrupted, "it was three boats...
Moore-MacCormick ships used to dock with hams from Gdynia, cheese and tinned fish from Norway, fancy breads from Sweden. American Export freighters brought snails from Casablanca, almonds and wines from Marseille, chestnuts and anchovies from Genoa and Naples, figs from Smyrna and Piraeus, Balkan herbs. Along Manhattan's South and Washington Streets, around 200 brokers large and small were having their Christmas rush, their warehouses full of sugar and spice...
...single risk assumed to date was $7,000,000 on a ship which got through from the Far East to the U.S. Biggest single loss was $3,000,000 on a cargo of fine Mediterranean tobacco which went down with the Greek tramp Petalli when the Nazis bombed the Piraeus last spring. Last week the Exchange had $2,000,000 earmarked to cover a ship from the Far East, a month overdue and unreported...
...best the unhappy Italians could claim for their week's work was the first night raid on Piraeus, which Athens wrote off as negligible. Nevertheless, eying the week's round of Axis conferences (see p. 28), the Greeks well knew that Italy might bring weapons which Greek arms could not beat...