Word: thrace
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strong voice at the peace table is, therefore, considered vital by Turkey's leaders. Territorial gains in Western Thrace would further safeguard Turkey's Dardanelles. Air-tight alliances with Britain and the U.S., founded on common participation in the war, would go far toward safeguarding her future. And Turkey herself has some postwar plans which she would like to see realized...
...happened was that the Turko-Bulgarian frontier was closed and the Turkish press suddenly began to denounce Bulgaria. The Turks suspect that Boris was trying to squirm out of his alliance with Hitler and butter up the Allies; the Bulgars fear that the Turks are preparing to grab off Thrace...
...correspondent of the Hungarian Pester Lloyd on a trip through Thrace reported last week that the frontier area was speckled with innumerable, brand-new bunkers. Minsker Zeitung, a German paper in Occupied Russia, featured stories about mighty new fortifications on the Aegean islands, including Crete. In Yugoslavia, the SS division Prinz Eugen was last week winding up a month's campaign in which it claimed to have recovered half of the Partisan-freed territory, including the capital, Bihac. The south of France was being additionally fortified...
Greek families are burying their dead secretly in order to use their ration cards. Bulgars, to whom Adolf Hitler threw Macedonia and Thrace, immediately slaughtered 10,000 Greeks, drove 70,000 more from their homes. Money cannot help; dead men have been picked up clutching large sums in their fists. The Italians cover the dead with cloth and carry them away; the Germans kick the dead in the gutter. Greece has many Lidices, towns razed and marked only by a sign printed on a swastika flag...
Greece. Southward-flowing rivers would carry Hitler into Macedonia and Thrace, where he could witness the Bulgarian invasion of Greece: several hundred thousand peasants have been turned out of their homes to make room for Bulgarian settlers. Beyond Greece would be the blue waters of the Aegean Sea, the purple minarets of Turkey and the terraced olive groves of Syria to lure him on. But some tiresome Nazi underling no doubt would urge the Führer to inspect fleets of dull grey invasion barges, squadrons of bombers, fighters and troop carriers hidden away in the islands off Greece...