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...Athanasios Klaras, known as Ares (Greek god of war), gives tenuous allegiance to the Leftist EAM, biggest of the Greek guerrilla factions. Before the war he did time in jail for forgery and worse. When the Germans came, he collected a gang of thugs, escaped to the hills, impartially harried Nazis and political opponents by slitting their ears and rubbing salt into the slits. A Greek who recently saw him describes Ares thus: "A swarthy face spanned by a handlebar mustache. ... He scorns rank, wears a uniform of which every piece is from a dead enemy. Around his fat waist...
France still had a legal claim; juridically, the mandate still existed. But this was a tenuous handhold on an area which has traditionally been the scene of Anglo-French imperial rivalry. Commented London's Times with surprising frankness: the settlement "enables the [Syrian and Lebanese] Governments to concert measures which may eventually further that larger Arab union which is one of the aims of British policy in the Middle East...
Four years of war and several near disasters taught Britain just how tenuous the Empire's sea and air links have become, made responsible Britons re-examine the British attitude about the war itself and what should come after. Last week TIME'S London correspondents examined this national thinking...
...western and northern Europe, the Germans have no buffer lands to trade for time, or for a tenuous, temporary security. Occupied Denmark and Norway lie between Britain and the coast of north eastern Germany. But they are no places for rear-guard economy; they are places to be held as strongly and fiercely as the Germans would fight for their own coast. For, if they fall, the inner fortress will have been breached...
Professor Allen has been concerned about the often tenuous relationships between music and society. Our Marching Civilization (Stanford University Press; $2.50) is the bracing result. Says Professor Allen...