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Still silent, the four Greeks sat down at the table and one by one added their signatures. Hollow-cheeked John Zevgos, Communist Minister of Agriculture in the Papandreou cabinet, signed first; then Demetrios Partsalidis, pale, white-headed Secretary-General of the EAM, Major Theodore Macridis, black-bearded operations officer of the ELAS general staff, and Major Athanasios Athenellis...
...week's end the bitter question was still undecided. It threatened the unity of the Greek Cabinet, where dissension arose over Premier Nicholas Plastiras' insistence that the hostages must be freed before discussions on permanent peace could begin. The unity of EAM was also threatened. The ELD (Union of Popular Democracy), second most powerful party in the EAM coalition, announced that it was breaking away, would confer independently with British Ambassador Reginald Leeper. Professor Alexander Svolos, white-haired, respected ex-leader of EAM's Provisional Government during its 18-month existence, called for immediate peace. The Salonika...
...Premiership. Most of his Ministers were Liberals; all but one had rightist traditions. The exception: Foreign Minister John Sofianopoulos, 57, who organized Greece's Popular Front party in 1936, visited Russia in 1924 at the invitation of the Russian Government. Not in the Government: representatives of EAM (National Liberation Front), whose fighting arm is ELAS. Places were presumably still open for them...
...General Plastiras made his attitude crystal-clear: ELAS must first lay down its arms before EAM could enter his Government. Thereafter he promised: 1) re-establishment of democratic institutions, 2) free elections. He added grimly: "I hope the rebellion will end with the rebels laying down their arms . . . trusting my word that I will not allow a dictatorship. ... If not, I will naturally be compelled to clear the situation by force." Leftish Foreign Minister Sofianopoulos 'backed his leader; ELAS was a minority, must lay down its arms...
...conference began. Churchill was speaking when the ELAS men turned up: Communist Party Secretary George Siantos, EAM Secretary-General Demetrios Partsalides, also a Communist, and ELAS General Emmanuel Mandakis, hero of Crete, who is suspected by the British of being a Communist. All wore British battledress, all were relieved of their pistols at the doors. Then the door was locked, the key handed to the ELAS...