Word: van
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...more than once, had been close to engulfing the whole country. Georgios and 200,000 Greek soldiers like him had accomplished this feat with the help of a soldier from a foreign land with a heart every bit as stout as theirs. He was Lieut. General James Alward Van Fleet, combat infantryman, sometime U.S. division and corps commander and now head of the Joint U.S. Military Advisory and Planning Group (JUSMAPG) in Greece...
...Van Fleet commands neither Private Papageorgiou nor any other Greek soldier. His job is to give advice and to supervise the flow of U.S. arms and supplies (nearly $300,000,000 had been authorized by December 1948) to their army. But he has given the Greeks a great deal more than that. He has given them hope...
...brigade attacked government positions near Florina. It might be a diversionary attack to harass Greek army groups successfully mopping up Red pockets in central Greece, or it might be the beginning of a major spring offensive by the Communists. At any rate, the Greek army, which has heeded Soldier Van Fleet's advice, was ready. The attackers at Fiorina were driven back, with government troops in hot pursuit...
...Powers at Berlin, and in the catastrophic defeats in Asia, Greece's victories and defeats in the war with communism had been all but forgotten by the West. Yet it was in Greece that the U.S. first publicly took a stand in aggressive resistance to the Red tide. Van Fleet holds a vital flank position in the battle between communism and the West. Says he: "This war in Greece is a first-class war of international communism. It's a war of annihilation with no respect for the rules...
Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra (the Concertgebouw Orchestra, Eduard van Beinum conducting; English Decca, 10 sides). Fritz Reiner's performance of this great work for Columbia (TIME, Jan. 3) may hold the edge in fire and power; but the fine work of the Concertgebouw, and the spaciousness and detail of Decca's recording, make this...