Word: saloniki
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...Greek seaport of Thessalonice, or Saloniki, holds the key to the tricky Balkan situation," he said, explaining that this city, located in the strip of Greece that borders on Bulgaria, can be used as a base for operations against the Germans as they sweep down towards Greece...
...British, there is little question that they will be wiped out, and the Germans will be in a position to threaten the English in the Near East. I don't believe that either Balkan state will stand up against Hitler unless the British are really powerful in Saloniki or in front of Constantinople. They will certainly not fight alone...
...Hole of Creation in his luggage (TIME, July 8), received countermanding orders last week when it was realized in Washington that his knowledge of Chinese dialects and experience in dealing with Chinese bandits might not be of great help in shooting Ethiopian trouble. Mr. Hanson was therefore ordered to Saloniki, Greece. To Addis Ababa was ordered First Secretary Cornelius Van H. Engert of the U. S. Legation at Cairo, the State Department having discovered that he has served in Turkey, Syria, Palestine, Persia and Afghanistan and speaks languages likely to be more useful in Ethiopia than Chinese...
...Yugoslav acceptance of Austro-German union, which would make Germany our country's neighbor. Germany would obtain hegemony in Central Europe and the Balkans and only a crazy man could believe that Germany would halt at our border. She would continue her march to the Adriatic and Saloniki and Yugoslavia would become her vassal...
...naive indeed to assign such idealism to these powers, who, for their gain, have created in Greece such internal antagonisms and hatreds that it will take many generations to wipe out. It is now history how during the War they financed Venizelos to set up a rebel government in Saloniki by promising that great diplomat territories which they had already assigned by secret treaty to Russia. After the War, in the Greek Asia Minor Expedition, France showed again her "benevolence" by secretly supplying munitions and officers to the Turks, thus causing the defeat of her Greek Allies...