WILL GREECE AGAIN TURN THE TIDE?

Evening Star, Issue 23811, 15 February 1941, Page 12

WILL GREECE AGAIN TURN THE TIDE?

“ The Greeks tripped up the growth of world empire once; can they do it twice? . “ An army of six million men and a navy of uilnumbercd ships approached Greece in the summer of 48U n.c., expecting an easy victory. Their Jeadcr was a dictator by the name of Xerxes, whose forces had been to invincibility by armies and navies impressed into his service from the conquered nations of Europe, Asia, and Africa. A bridge of boats more than a mile long had been thrown across the Hellespont. The forces moved south, picking u)) recruits from the States that dared not resist and annihilating those States that refused to swell the hordes. Thormopylio was fought, and the last resisting Greek was killed. “ Xerxes found Athens deserted but for a handful of patriots who put their faith in 1 wooden walls ’ raised before the propylaca on the Acropolis. The main Greek forces putting their faith in the ‘ wooden walls ’ of their ships had taken up their position in the Bay of Sal amis on tho island of that name. The mighty Xerxes sot up his silver-footed throne on the mountain side across the narrow strait from tho Greek position, and ordered the attack. The Greeks utterly wiped out the Persian fleet that day. and Xerxes lied with only a hundredth part of his forces, never to deface another page of history. Athena defeated the Persian Umpire with her golden lance. “ Again a monster military force has picked on the Greeks. It is to bo Imped that history will repeat itself.”-—Letter in the ‘ Christian Science Monitor.’