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With all this in mind, Karamanlis advised the King-belatedly-against a planned state visit to Britain in July. There might be similar incidents during the trip, he said, and the Greek rightists, resenting left-wing attacks abroad, might make trouble, too, as they did in Salonika recently, where a left-wing member of the Greek Parliament was killed. The King's plaintive rejoinder was that he had accepted the invitation long ago and it would be ungentlemanly to back out now. The British had promised adequate security. Besides, he did not want to appear to give...
When World War I flared, Pearson joined the University of Toronto Ambulance Unit, and in 1915 shipped out with the British forces to Salonika. Recalls a comrade: "We pictured ourselves as doing deeds of heroism under enemy fire. We didn't realize that we would wash floors, clean people's backsides and empty bedpans...
Journeying to Salonika, Queen Frederika and King Paul of Greece attended a Te Deum at St. Demetrius Cathedral, marked the 19th anniversary of the Italian invasion that forced Greece into World...
...music he finds "deep, rich, untouched." But he had played so long himself that no cabaret was still open, and he settled for a Turkish meal of goat cheese, pilaf and kuzu firin (roast lamb). Too soon, it was time to head for the airport and a performance in Salonika, Greece. Among the concerts still ahead on the Philharmonic's world tour: 18 in Russia, five in Poland and Yugoslavia. By the time it returns in October, the Philharmonic will have seen ten weeks of touring, played 29 cities in 17 countries...
...episode among NATO partners matches the savage anti-Greek riots that swept Izmir and Istanbul the night of Sept. 6, 1955. Until then the mutual quarrel over Cyprus had been furiously propagandistic but not violent. That night, ostensibly aroused by reports of an explo sion in Salonika that damaged the birthplace of Turkey's late great Kemal Ataturk, the rioters swarmed through the streets wrecking and smashing anything Greek. In one night of Turkish terror, 300 people were injured, 4,000 stores looted, 78 Greek Orthodox churches gutted...