Word: struma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...Ukraine, his total moved over the million mark. In the last war, the Russians had one and one half "blood casualties" (killed and wounded) for every prisoner loss in the early, mobile phases.* In last spring's Balkan campaign, the Greeks, where they fought hard (in the Struma Valley, for instance), had about three and one half blood casualties to every prisoner loss. Supposing the hard-fighting Russians to have suffered at least two blood casualties to each prisoner loss, total casualties early this week would...
...first day, the Germans claimed they had advanced 18 to 25 miles in northern Yugoslavia. In the Struma Valley they admitted stubborn resistance. To the Greeks, that was gross understatement. They claimed that they were piling the valley high with German dead...