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...Rightist Manner. In Greece the British refer to the EAM-ELAS revolt as "The Trouble," the Americans call it "The Revolution," while the Greeks describe it as "The Mutiny...
...reported "revolution" might well have taken the form of big-scale, violent demonstrations, like the EAM demonstrations which touched off the Greek civil war. But whatever was happening, one thing seemed clear: the days of the Radescu Government were numbered...
...Before the German withdrawal, EAM had not used the arms sent by Britain to fight the Germans. It had fought the Germans with captured Italian arms, hoarded its superior British arms to use in the seizure of power in Greece. ¶ It had been much less zealous in fighting the Germans than in fighting other Greeks. ¶ELAS had committed atrocities during the civil war. The Regent, Archbishop Damaskinos, estimated the number of persons killed by ELAS, or by the Communist Party's terrorist organization, OPLA, at 10,000. Many of them were civilians. ¶ The three EAM trade...
...British labor delegation concluded that the generally pro-EAM reports of the correspondents in Athens were due to the fact that they "seemed to think that Greece consisted of the Hotel Grande Bretagne [where the newspapermen lived...
GREECE Peace Peace came to Greece last week. The Government of Premier General Nicholas Plastiras officially announced that its representatives and EAM's had signed an agreement on "all points under discussion without exception." The agreement, reported the BBC, provided for a plebiscite on the monarchy, a general election this year, the demobilization of ELAS. EAM made no demand to participate in the Government...