Word: salonika
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...rebels talked to a TIME correspondent. Yannis Fotiades had been ill with tuberculosis; he had joined the Markos rebels when they promised hospital treatment in Yugoslavia. While still convalescing he was returned to Greece for "light duty." The light duty turned out to be the raid on Salonika. "I was very tired with all that marching," he said, "so I fell prisoner...
George Molvithis, 32, a former philology student at Salonika University, had played in amateur theatricals in the Communist Youth movement. Then he had gone to the hills to join the guerrillas. "Up there," he said, "two people may not even talk together. Brothers are posted to different units. The captains take all the good things. When we ate macaroni, they took...
Said an Athens spokesman: the plan "was intended to destroy Greece by destroying Greece's future-her youth." The Greek government hurried off a sharp note to the U.N. Balkan committee in Salonika, charging the Reds with "genocide," and asked for immediate action. Two committees were appointed and the issue labeled "top priority...
...police file shows that he has been jailed at least eight times since 1929; that he is 5 ft. 7 in. tall, lean and muscular; that he has blue eyes, wavy chestnut hair and a mustache that takes up where Stalin's stops. He slipped out of Salonika in 1946 to join the guerrillas and shortly became their commander in chief...