Word: salonika
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William R. Polk '51 will witness tomorrow the opening of the Salonika trial for the murder of his brother, Columbia Broadcasting System correspondent George Polk, in Salonika last...
Naousa is an important textile town, 90 miles west of Salonika, whose prewar population of 12,000 had been more than doubled by refugees. Last week TIME Correspondent Robert Low, going into Naousa with a government relief column, found the people-those who remained-numbly picking their way through' rubble and wreckage, as though dazed by some cataclysm of nature. There had been a cataclysm, but it was manmade. The Communist guerrillas had taught the townspeople, as they had taught many other Greeks elsewhere, not to be friendly with the Athens government, and especially not with Americans...
Polk had expected to leave for Greece during the vacation with Contantine Poulos of the Nation on funds raised by a newsmen's group established to investigate the murder of George Polk, liberal Columbia Broadcasting System correspondent whose body was found in Salonika Bay last...
...attend the trial of the men accused of his brother's murder, he will be starting the next chapter of a tale of international intrigue that has steadily been building up in intensity since the corpse of correspondent George Polk was found floating 150 yards off shore in Salonika...
...stringer for Reuters news agency. A graduate of Communist training schools, he had been ordered to renounce the party publicly two years ago, and pose as a reformed Red. On the night of May 8, under party orders, he said, he took Polk to a waterfront restaurant in Salonika, to wait for a dory that would start the correspondent on his journey to see Guerrilla Chieftain Markos Vafiades...