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Crisis in Greece. Last week Athens, where the Government of moderate Premier Papandreou kept order with the help of British forces, was an island in a country wrecked by famine, disease, inflation and ruled by the leftist EAM...
...ELAS [military arm of the leftist EAM] has arms. Not only have its soldiers generally failed to turn them in, even in the Athens area, but there are indications that the ELAS has not encouraged the disarming requested by the Government. The Communist Party is opposed to calling up classes for the national army and continues to encourage its own force to increase its strength and augment stores of arms in clandestine arsenals...
...Crowds of young people, singing EAM songs that urge the establishment of a 'people's Government' and a repudiation of the monarchy, painted party slogans on walls and processions of youths shouting castigations of 'Fascists' are the prevailing features of these days of tension here...
...Athens, too, corpses were on display. Into the square facing the Government's offices flocked several hundred angry men, sobbing women, for another of EAM's interminable demonstrations. But something had been added to the hammer-&-sickle pennants and sloganizing banners. The crowd carried three improvised litters, containing three bodies-still warm. Leftists charged the nationalist-royalist X-Battalion had killed the three men. The opposition charged that EAM members had disinterred three newly buried bodies, was using them for propaganda...
...EAM demonstrators shouted for Prime Minister George Papandreou to come and touch the bodies. But the Government had another corpse on its hands...