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...with prior U.S. and Russian approval. It sought no economic or strategic advantage for itself, although it was true that Britain had an interest in the Mediterranean. Added Eden: "Our aim is to maintain law & order, to establish a Greek Government broadly representative of all opinion in Greece, including EAM. . . . The first task of the Government will be to get relief going and food for the people. The second task will be to organize free and fair elections...
Premier George Papandreou and EAM were both reportedly agreed on the person of Archbishop Damaskinos, strapping (6 ft. 4 in.), black-bearded prelate who had gone to the Church from the wrestling ring. The respected Archbishop himself had agreed to act for the King...
Amnesty, Regency? Meanwhile negotiations began between the belligerents. The Hotel Grande Bretagne, which houses the British high command and the Greek Government, buzzed with rumor. An EAM emissary, hefty, handsome Miltiades Porphyrogenis, made his way across the urban battle lines to the headquarters of British Lieut. General Ronald Mackenzie Scobie received from him the British terms for an armistice: ELAS troops in Athens and Piraeus must yield their arms, evacuate the area. Two days later, EAM countered with a three-point demand for an amnesty, an all-party Government, a regency...
...Bread, No Beds. In the slowly reviving capital, life collapsed completely. Martial law and the general strike ordered by EAM paralyzed all public services. Shops closed, trams stopped, streets emptied. Conditions at Athens' Hospital of the Evangelist had been bad enough before the fighting began. Now so many civilians had been wounded that there was not enough of anything, except drugs, to care for them. Patients lay on mattresses on the floor. Even the doctors' offices, reception rooms and corridors were full of wounded...
...Gluzburg." The political war kept pace with the shooting. In the absence of newspapers, EAM littered the streets with leaflets denouncing the Government and "George Gluzburg"* as "great enemies of the people." By order of Winston Churchill, wavering Premier Papandreou withdrew his resignation, issued a statement: "My Government defends freedom against the tyranny of an armed minority which is fascist." Said his Minister of Marine, Poet-Politician Panayotis Kanellopoulos: "We are waging a struggle of the democratic front against the fascist Left...