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...Smyrna, Leyden learned (in the first of several flash backs), Dimitrios had merely committed a murder. Then he framed a Moslem friend (Monte Blue) into dying for the crime. In Sofia he tried to assassinate a Prime Minister. There he befriended an uxorious little clerk (Steven Geray) in the Maritime Ministry, got him heavily in debt in a gambling house set up by spies for that express purpose, extorted from him the plans of Yugoslavia's mine fields in the Adriatic. Then he left his victim to suicide and, having collected his fee, double-crossed his employers...
Last week the news from anybody's sea included a New York Times report that the Germans had pulled almost all of their forces out of the Dodecanese and the occupied Greek islands of Chios, Samos and Mytilene (where Sappho was born). After a trip from Smyrna on a Turkish steamer past the islands, Correspondent Ray Brock concluded: "The entire Near East is probably secure [from Axis attack] until the spring of 1943. . . . The enemy, from Rhodes in the Mediterranean to the vital inner Aegean bases, is probably more vulnerable to Allied sea and air attacks than since...
...martial Mediterranean last week, strangely pacific ships were afloat. From fig-famed Smyrna on the Turkish coast, the British Llandovery Castle, brightly lighted, sailed for Egypt. In the same harbor the Italian Grandisca got up steam to sail for Italy. Into Gibraltar, unscathed, sailed the Italian Saturnia and Vulcania, sparkling with fresh white paint...
Moore-MacCormick ships used to dock with hams from Gdynia, cheese and tinned fish from Norway, fancy breads from Sweden. American Export freighters brought snails from Casablanca, almonds and wines from Marseille, chestnuts and anchovies from Genoa and Naples, figs from Smyrna and Piraeus, Balkan herbs. Along Manhattan's South and Washington Streets, around 200 brokers large and small were having their Christmas rush, their warehouses full of sugar and spice...
...scientists' predictions were only a few hours old when they were horribly fulfilled. New shocks, no less terrifying because expected, leveled 25 villages clustered around Amasya, and struck for the first time in western Turkey, near Smyrna. All told, last week's quake was Turkey's worst...