Word: elasical
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Seldom has a statesman of his stature taken such a public drubbing as Prime Minister Winston Churchill for his policy in Greece. Public opinion of all shades distrusted his use of British troops to defend the Greek Government against ELAS. The press was almost unanimously critical. From Athens most correspondents...
Premier General Nicholas Plastiras wanted the peace conditions to be binding. Therefore he flatly refused to deal with any delegates who were not members of the Greek Communist Party, which controls ELAS. Several days were spent in wrangling before the .Government finally accepted ELAS' three delegates: Communist Party Secretary...
The next day the talks continued. This time real logs burned in the grate. Above the mantelpiece an engraving of Lord Byron, whose experiences with Greek liberation had been even more distressing than Winston Churchill's, stared down at the peacemakers. The delegates laughed at each other's...
Forthright Foreign Minister Sofianopoulos had already stated his views on an amnesty: "There will be neither proscriptions nor mass prosecutions. But there will be severe punishment by lawful authority of those who . . . committed offenses against the common law." Now Premier Plastiras postponed all pending ELAS trials, suspended five death sentences...
This week Minister Sofianopoulos announced that the ELAS delegates had put aside their demand for a general amnesty, had accepted the Government's view. The peacemaking talks were resumed.