GREECE: According to Formula

Above the historic stones of the Acropolis last week fluttered not only the Nazi swastika but also the azure-&-white banner of Greece. "An elegant expression that we honor Greece," declared a German correspondent in Athens. But beneath the twin emblems the Nazis energetically concerned themselves not so much with honor as with the business of practical conquest.

In Athens rugged, bronzed, handsome General Giorgios Tsolakoglou denounced the flight of King George II to the island of Crete as cowardly, announced the formation of a new Greek Government headed by himself and an Army cabal. No man could say whether or...

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