Anastasios Dalipis Anastasios Dalipis ( ; 1896 – 1949 ) , usually referred as Tasos Dalipis , was a Greek Army officer and politician , who was elected many times as a member of the Greek Parliament and served as Minister Governor - General of Western Macedonia from 1946 to 1947 . Biography . Anastasios Dalipis was born in 1896 in the village of Gavros in modern Kastoria Prefecture , then part of the Ottoman Empire . He was the second son of the captain of the Macedonian Struggle Dimitris Dalipis , who operated in the Korestia area , and was killed fighting against the Bulgarian " komitadji " and the Ottoman army on 19 November 1906 in the Asvos hill of Korestia , on the road to Prespes . After the death of their father , the young Anastasios and his brothers were helped to escape to the independent Kingdom of Greece , for the fear of the Bulgarians . On the outbreak of the First Balkan War in 1912 , at the age of 16 , presenting false documents due to his young age , he volunteered in the Greek army and participated as a soldier in the Battle of Bizani . In 1917 he graduated from the Greek Army Academy as a second lieutenant . He fought in the Asia Minor Campaign where he was decorated with the Gold Cross of Valour . His younger brother , second lieutenant Athanasios Dalipis , was killed fighting in the Asia Minor Campaign . In 1923 he left the army , studied in the National Technical University of Athens and worked as a surveying engineer in various areas of Greece . He was involved in politics and was elected MP of the Kastoria - Florina Prefecture in the elections of 1932 , 1935 and 1936 . With the outbreak of the Greco - Italian War in 1940 he was recalled to the army and fought in the Albanian front , as a deputy commander and then commander of the 33rd Infantry Regiment . He was wounded in the Boubesi area ( Height 717 ) and was decorated a second time , with the Gold Cross of Valour . Following the German invasion of Greece , Dalipis was evacuated to Crete , where he fought in the Battle of Crete . He was evacuated to Egypt with the last English convoy ( 29 May 1941 ) , where he joined the Middle East allied forces . There he served as a garrison commander of Alexandria and Tel Aviv . With the liberation of Greece in 1944 he returned to the country and quit the army , having reached the rank of Colonel . In 1946 he was elected for the fourth time deputy of the Kastoria - Florina Prefecture . He served as a Minister Governor - General of Western Macedonia in the cabinets of Konstantinos Tsaldaris and Dimitrios Maximos in 1946 - 1947 , during the difficult years of the Greek Civil War . He was the first Greek politician who , with an article in the newspaper " Ellinikon Aima " , accused Josip Broz Tito and Yugoslavia for their direct involvement in the Greek Civil War , with the long - term aim to detach Greek Macedonia . Tito then protested to the UN , and recalled his ambassador in Greece . Dalipis submitted his resignation aiming to facilitate the Greek government . His resignation was not accepted and following that the Greek government complained to the UN against Yugoslavia . In 1947 , as a Macedonian deputy , he travelled on his own expenses to the United States of America and Canada , where with speeches to the Greek communities he contradicted all the arguments of the Bulgarian and Slavomacedonian propaganda , which at that time was very active in the above mentioned countries . As a result of this trip was the unification of all Greek - Macedonian unions under the aegis of the Pan - Macedonian Union . Anastasios Dalipis was married to Dimitra N . Kyrtsou , and had three children , one boy and twin girls . Anastasios Dalipis died in Athens on July 15 , 1949 , after a surgery .