Word: saloniki
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
Sultan Abdul Hamid, called "Abdul the Damned" by phrasemaking historians, was crafty, cruel, ignorant,* yet at the beginning of the World War his personal estates included half the Province of Saloniki, holdings in the Island of Cyprus, Thessaly, Greece, Syria, Palestine and what is now the Kingdom of Irak, a goodly section of the rich tobacco lands of Macedonia (whence "Egyptian" cigarets) and about $25,000,000 in jewels. When he was deposed in 1909, all these were confiscated...