Word: thrace
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Government planes had dropped a million leaflets over the rocky, sunbaked, guerrilla-infested hills of Thessaly, Macedonia and Thrace. Premier Sophoulis' leaflets offered amnesty to all who would turn in their guns. But in the northern hills "the word" had come by Radio Moscow, straight from the editorials of Pravda and Izvestia: no compromise; the fight goes on. Only a few hundred had trooped in from their hideouts to accept the amnesty which "liberals" in Western countries had demanded. Scoffed the Communist organ Rizospastis: "We welcome the leaflets which make badly needed tobacco wrappers, notepaper, fire starters and other...
...Field. White-starred C-54s of the Air Transport Command brought a stream of tight-lipped generals and high-ranking brass of the Air Force and Marine Corps, who hurried off to conferences and staff consultations. Some bounced in jeeps along the cratered, axle-snapping roads of Macedonia and Thrace, to inspect Greek Army units. Offshore, units of COMNAVMED, including the carrier Leyte, prowled around the Aegean islands...
...William R. Hodgson. "You are a servant of this Commission." Kisselev kept going, was dutifully followed by the delegates from Russia, the Ukraine, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. The Western quorum stayed to pass a vote of censure. This week Russia abandoned its attempt to give Bulgaria a slice of Greek Thrace...
Meanwhile, at the Paris Peace Conference, Russian-dominated Bulgaria asked for the eastern half of Thrace. In effect, this would give Russia an Aegean coastline, an inferior port (Dede Agach). More important, it would further seal off the Straits, further menace Turkey and Greece...
Wanted: Macedonia. Macedonia lies on the northern shore of the Aegean Sea, between Turkish Thrace and the Albanian mountains. Bulgars, Serbs, Greeks have eyed it jealously ever since the breakdown of the Ottoman Empire in the 19th Century...