Word: salonika
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Central Committee of the ELD declared: "The armed breach occurred without the knowledge, approval or consent of the ELD or any of its representatives. . . . Forcible seizure of power within the organization of EAM at the expense of ELD and other cooperating parties automatically severs every connecting link with EAM." Salonika representatives of ELD, SKE and the Agrarian Party (another EAM group) declared that the civil war had been caused "by the irreconcilable policy of the Communist Party." They warned that Bulgars and Yugoslavs had been fighting with the ELAS forces and that Greece might lose Macedonia or Thrace to Yugoslavia...
...Russian-controlled Sofia radio, meanwhile, broadcast an appeal to ELAS to try its hostages as "war criminals," enemies of the people of Athens. It also launched a drive for an autonomous Macedonia (which might include Greece's No. 2 port of Salonika), with a capital at Skoplje-which is in Yugoslavia...
...Popular Democracy), second most powerful party in the EAM coalition, announced that it was breaking away, would confer independently with British Ambassador Reginald Leeper. Professor Alexander Svolos, white-haired, respected ex-leader of EAM's Provisional Government during its 18-month existence, called for immediate peace. The Salonika branch of the SKE (Socialist Party, another large group), also broke away from...
...successor is no cookie-pusher. Ambassador-designate Pearson was nicknamed "Mike" by his comrades in Salonika in 1915 because, as they told the 18-year-old soldier, "Lester is no name for a fighting man. ..." He worked in the Chicago stockyards, taught history at Toronto University, was an ice hockey and football coach before he entered the foreign service. He was Secretary of Canada House in London when World War II broke out. When he left, the Manchester Guardian paid him a fulsome compliment: "one of the best-known Canadians in England...
Said Bulgarian Prime Minister Kimon Georgiev, whose country is controlled by the Red Army and Communist-dominated Partisan bands: "I can definitely state Bulgaria will create no difficulties." But Greek Macedonia is the richest of all Greek provinces and includes the big Aegean port of Salonika...