Word: salonika
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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...
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...
...AMAG report showed that five airfields were being "winterized," work had started on repairs to three stretches of highway, repairs had begun on port installations in Piraeus and Salonika, and work would soon begin on clearing the Corinth Canal (blocked by German demolitions since...
...Like Flies." In Salonika a top police officer told me: "If there has ever been a fertile breeding ground for Communism, it's among these refugees. Communist agents are swarming over them like flies and I don't know what we're going to use for DDT. If we can't feed them, house them, or give them any real hope, all they are going to have to live on this winter is Communist propaganda...