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...EAM was not composed only of Communists but that the Communist Party dominated EAM. The Communists were even stronger in ELAS, EAM's military force...
There was the stubborn fact of Greece. In the fighting between the British troops and ELAS, the Greek Communist Party had been the most aggressive section of the EAM. But no Communist Party undertakes an important action without Moscow's advice. The Soviet Government had remained scrupulously aloof from the fighting in Greece but Moscow could not escape the suspicion of having had some hand in the revolt...
Light was shed last week on an important aspect of the Greek situation which has been overlooked except by the British Government: how much was ELAS influenced by the Communist Party, the central group in EAM? ELD (Union of Popular Democracy) and SKE (Socialist Party of Greece), two of the biggest parties, both of which recently broke with EAM, had issued statements. The Central Committee of the SKE declared that: "It refused all responsibility for, and withdrew itself from, the EAM bloc as soon as it was informed of the armed breach which took place without consultation...
...Central Committee of the ELD declared: "The armed breach occurred without the knowledge, approval or consent of the ELD or any of its representatives. . . . Forcible seizure of power within the organization of EAM at the expense of ELD and other cooperating parties automatically severs every connecting link with EAM." Salonika representatives of ELD, SKE and the Agrarian Party (another EAM group) declared that the civil war had been caused "by the irreconcilable policy of the Communist Party." They warned that Bulgars and Yugoslavs had been fighting with the ELAS forces and that Greece might lose Macedonia or Thrace to Yugoslavia...
...EAM's Game. "While the British were busy distributing food and endeavoring to keep things steady, the EAM and Communist ministers, who were eventually increased to seven in the Papandreou Government, were playing a different game. Throughout this has been a struggle for power. They were playing a game of ELAS bands and their Communist directors. While sitting in Mr. Papandreou's Cabinet, they were working in closest combination with the forces gathering to destroy it and him, him and his colleagues representative of everyday life in Greece . . . and when the fierce mountaineers had got well into...