Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italo-Ameri-cano had run a full-page ad last January calling for a committee of 100,000 to get at least a million letters off to Italy posthaste. Points to be made to relatives in the old country: food and relief has been coming from the U.S., not Yugoslavia or other Soviet satellites; Italy's hope for peace depends...
...courtroom cheered the prisoner.) Q. You are reported to have said that the regime in Yugoslavia is atheistic, that violence and crime have the upper hand and there is urgent need for action to remove the tyranny. Did you speak in this manner...
...great fear was that "General" Markos Vafiades, the rebel cornmander, would attack first, knocking the government campaign off balance. In Washington, the State Department heard that a ragtag "international brigade" of 30,000 Greeks, French, Italians, Czechoslovaks, Poles, Germans and Spaniards was poised to strike from Albania and Yugoslavia. In Rome, Italian Communists announced formation of a "Greek Liberation Committee" which would send "food, clothing and medicine" to Vafiades...
During court lulls, three of the rebels talked to a TIME correspondent. Yannis Fotiades had been ill with tuberculosis; he had joined the Markos rebels when they promised hospital treatment in Yugoslavia. While still convalescing he was returned to Greece for "light duty." The light duty turned out to be the raid on Salonika. "I was very tired with all that marching," he said, "so I fell prisoner...
...London, Mme. Tussaud's waxworks voted out a few old favorites. Set to be scrapped: Jack Dempsey, Gene Tunney, ex-King Refer of Yugoslavia, the late Actor George Arliss, the late "strongman" John Metaxas of Greece and Lord Beaverbrook. From their waxy ruins will rise the figure of Comic Danny Kaye, latest toast of London. Also to be unveiled shortly: a carrot-haired effigy of Greer Garson, first actress to be waxed since Katharine Hepburn...