Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from northern Greece was the best that gloomy Athens had heard for a long time. It was not a military victory for the government; it was a political crisis in the camp of the enemy. The rebel radio announced that General Markos Vafiades (TIME, April 5), the wiry, hairy soldier who had long commanded the northern Communists, had been "seriously ill" for months and had been relieved of his duties...
...Moscow, and of the Moscow-liners in his own councils, by maintaining close contacts with Yugoslavia after Tito's break with the Cominform. Like Tito, Markos had fought his own battle for power, and having achieved it, he liked to run things his own way. As a soldier, he believed that his army needed the crossing points on the Yugoslav border, and the training and supply bases behind it. For a while, he made this view prevail. The Cominform, however, had a blindly loyal follower in Moscow-trained Nicholas Zachariades, secretary general of the Greek Communist Party...
...delegation of local fräuleins asked if something couldn't be done about Russian soldiers molesting German women. Said the commandant: "Always carry some ink with you. In case of distress, pour it over the soldier's clothes. Since every soldier has but one uniform, I can easily find out the culprit from the ink blot...
...Pages of History. Father Molnar refers to his flock as mentally retarded and reactionary. "Hungarians," he said, "are always against something. Mindszenty was working on this theory to incite the people against the new democracy. He is a good and stubborn soldier. But he is a bad diplomat who does not know his history. How could he solve the world's ills by turning back the pages of history...
When the politicians went to King Paul with a list of old names in a new arrangement, they found the monarch in a stern mood. He told them that they must form a really effective and representative government; otherwise, he would install Greece's most venerated soldier, General Alexander Papagos, as Premier. Papagos, who had driven the Italians back into Albania in 1941, would not come out of retirement unless he was given a free hand...