Word: struma
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...most highly fortified and guarded pieces of real estate in Europe is a patch of ground where the borders of Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Greece meet in the wild Belasica Mountains overlooking the Struma and Strumica river valleys, one of the historic invasion routes to the Aegean Sea. There, one sunlit morning last week, Greek Lieut. Vassili Arkoudas, on duty in the most forward of the Greek outposts, was startled by the sound of heavy antiaircraft fire...
...long thick trail of smoke and then fire break out," said Arkoudas. "The pilot was obviously trying to keep control, and I think he tried to make a wide sweeping turn, all the while losing altitude rapidly. I thought he was going to make it onto the Struma plain. He didn't. About 1,500 ft. off the ground the airplane disappeared in what looked like a big flash explosion, although I heard nothing. The next thing I saw was a mass of debris falling straight down." In that mass of debris died 57 people, passengers and crew...
...proclamation explained that the marchers were members of the Greek labor brigade Yanis Zavgos, which "had come from Yugoslavia to help Bulgarian youth build a new Bulgaria into a bulwark against international imperialism." Ostensibly they were going to work on the new Youth Railway now under construction in the Struma Valley, which leads down to Salonika. But the Government reception for the brigadiers, which was attended by members of the Bulgarian Cabinet, was equivalent to unofficial recognition of the Markos regime...
...prohibition against entry which led to the sinking of the steamship Struma with the loss of seven hundred and fifty lives reveals in the most tragic way that appeasement still guides the British Colonial Office. These people had fled the Hitler terror in Rumania; they were seeking admission to the Jewish National Homeland. The refusal of the British to admit them was an infringement of the League Mandate under which England governs Palestine, a Mandate approved by the Congress of the United States. More than that, it was a denial of those principles of human justice for which the United...
...arrival of the Struma's passengers was eagerly awaited by the Jewish population of Palestine. These men and women could have served in the armed forces, could have helped in meeting the labor shortage caused by the voluntary enlistment of fifteen thousand Palestinian Jews in the British forces...