Word: thrace
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...northeast Greece the beaten Bulgarians began to withdraw from Thrace in answer to Allied demands. Off western Greece the British walked onto the island of Corfu, its once-green hills and flowered meadows torn by incessant bombing. Not a shot was fired...
...London last week the European Advisory Commission* worked out the final draft of an armistice for Bulgaria. Under its reported terms the Bulgars must withdraw immediately from Greek and Yugoslav territory in Macedonia and Thrace; pay reparations (amount not yet fixed) to Greece and Yugoslavia; continue fighting their erstwhile ally, Germany; permit the Allies to use Bulgaria for attacking Germany...
Bulgaria capitulated to the Russian Army on Sept. 6. Armistice terms were delayed because: 1) the E.A.C. was too busy with the bigger problem of what to do with Germany; 2) Bulgarians made no move to get out of Yugoslav Macedonia and Greek Thrace, a condition on which Britain insisted. Last week the Bulgars were reported ready to sign...
...reward for this heroic nation then, to deprive her not only of the promised Dodecanese (taken by Italy from the old Turkish Empire in 1912; given to Greece in 1919, and retaken by Italy in 1922 for no reason and vaguely promised ever since), but also Greek-inhabited Western Thrace which has been incorporated with Greece since 1919! And these territories are to be taken from a nation that is indisputably on our side and given to the canny Turks, still waiting to make sure who is going...
Turkey would naturally like to have the Dodecanese Islands and Western Thrace-but probably not at the expense of a strong, friendly Greece. For the past decade Turkey has considered Greece the cornerstone of her Balkan relations, in 1936 went out of her way to bury the hatchet with her onetime enemy by an exchange of populations that meant considerable sacrifices for Turkey. About a month ago, an editorial in the No. 1 Turkish newspaper Aksam declared that Turkey had no right to interfere with the peace terms, but would support the eviction of Italy from the Balkans...