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Word: rebel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...government was planning a spring offensive. The great fear was that "General" Markos Vafiades, the rebel cornmander, would attack first, knocking the government campaign off balance. In Washington, the State Department heard that a ragtag "international brigade" of 30,000 Greeks, French, Italians, Czechoslovaks, Poles, Germans and Spaniards was poised to strike from Albania and Yugoslavia. In Rome, Italian Communists announced formation of a "Greek Liberation Committee" which would send "food, clothing and medicine" to Vafiades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Plans & Fears | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

...Salonika last week, the huge concert studio of Radio Macedonia had been turned into a makeshift courtroom. Fenced in by a net of chicken wire, 128 rebel prisoners, captured after the shelling of Salonika last month, hunched together in close-packed seats. The judges, nine army officers, sat on the stage. Around them was stacked the evidence: rifles, machine guns, grenades. A mountain howitzer poked its muzzle out beside a grand piano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: The Top of the Pot | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

...home village of Yannitsa in Macedonia, chestnut-haired Chryssoula Ransou, 19, had joined the Communist Youth because "it was fashionable." Chryssoula had been ordered to duty at a rebel base hospital on the Yugoslav border. There, Chryssoula, who had promised to marry a boy in Yannitsa, learned about the new rebel marriage rules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: The Top of the Pot | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

...trial continued, General Markos Vafiades hurled a. threat over the rebel radio. Unless the Salonika prisoners were released, he warned, a group of captured Greek army officers would be shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: The Top of the Pot | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

John Natsis and Zagarus Voiliotis had been billeted with a widower in Kranies, in the rebel-controlled northwest corner of Greece. They had watched the widower give the names and ages of his three children to a rebel officer and a clerk. "They told him he must be glad that his children would be taken away to the safety of other countries," said the two peasants. "They said soon the Monarcho-Fascists would bomb Kranies, and in Rumania his children would receive a good education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILDREN: As the Twig Is Bent | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

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