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...TOWERS OF TREBIZOND (277 pp.)-Rose Macaulay-Farrar, Straus & Cudahy...
...stop after Samsun, police interference steadily increased. At Giresun, where a detachment of soldiers with fixed bayonets surrounded him the moment he stepped ashore, Gulek tried waving to onlookers, only to be warned by the police chief: "You are creating a political demonstration by waving. Kindly desist." At fabled Trebizond, where Xenophon's weary Ten Thousand finally reached the sea, the police tried to whisk Gulek from the dock to party headquarters in a car. When he insisted on making the trip by foot, they used clubs and jeeps to scatter the crowds that gathered to catch sight...
Until they came to the sea at Trebizond, Xenophon's Greeks marched in a set pattern; he repetitiously records that each day's march (stathmos) covered so many parasangs. The inexorable Russians, whose diplomatic movements also follow a set pattern, reached Trebizond (now Trabzon) last week...
...first major essay at national politics came in 1938. Against the violent opposition of Dictator-Premier John Metaxas and the King whose powers Damaskinos now administers, he was elected Archbishop of all Greece-by one vote. Metaxas promptly annulled the election, put in the runner-up, Chrysanthos of Trebizond, and exiled Damaskinos to the mountain monastery of Phaneromene on Salamis...
...power action in the event of Balkan invasion by Germany or a Caucasian war with Russia. The Balkans buzzed with a report (discounted in London and Paris) that Turkey had promised the Allies free passage through the Dardanelles for war purposes and use of her harbors at Trebizond, Samsun and Sinope for a blockade of the Black...