Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That is easy way to make living," he said, "but does little for mind...
...became a mascot for the 43rd, a New England National Guard division, and he also scrubbed pots & pans in the mess tents. One night, seeing some Japs lying in ambush, José raced back to a G.I., saluted stiffly and cried: "Sir, Japanese sniper-this way, please!" Often he slipped at night to his parents' home, returned with roasted chickens, fresh eggs and bucayo (bits of coconut fried in brown sugar) for his G.I. pals...
...intelligence officer remarked that Markos' affliction was, no doubt, "a small round hole in the head." Although it seemed most probable that he had been executed by his fellow Communists, there was a slight possibility that he might have escaped into Yugoslavia. It made no difference. In one way or another, Markos had been removed from the scene...
...afoul of Moscow, and of the Moscow-liners in his own councils, by maintaining close contacts with Yugoslavia after Tito's break with the Cominform. Like Tito, Markos had fought his own battle for power, and having achieved it, he liked to run things his own way. As a soldier, he believed that his army needed the crossing points on the Yugoslav border, and the training and supply bases behind it. For a while, he made this view prevail. The Cominform, however, had a blindly loyal follower in Moscow-trained Nicholas Zachariades, secretary general of the Greek Communist Party...
...wire barrier along the border, across which men, arms and supplies had once freely flowed. If Markos was right-that the Albanian and Bulgarian backstops were not enough for Communist victory in Greece-then the tide of battle, which lately has gone against Athens, may soon turn the other way...