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The 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...
The Russian-controlled Sofia radio, meanwhile, broadcast an appeal to ELAS to try its hostages as "war criminals," enemies of the people of Athens. It also launched a drive for an autonomous Macedonia (which might include Greece's No. 2 port of Salonika), with a capital at Skoplje-which...
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...
ELAS Advances. "On the night of Dec. 4-5 a series of telegrams arrived showing that advancing ELAS forces were about a thousand yards from the center of the Greek Government and the Hotel Grande Bretagne and also the same distance from the British Embassy . . . and seemed to be overrunning...
"Almost all police stations in Athens and the Piraeus had been occupied or stormed by ELAS forces, some with the slaughter of every single inmate. Firing was widespread throughout the city. It was growing; it was approaching. . . .