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Tommies in tanks had recaptured the ruins of the Averoff prison which ELAS had used as a fort. After it fell, resistance collapsed. With all but a third of the capital recaptured, reinforced British troops prepared to drive out the remnant of ELAS forces. In driblets ELAS riflemen retreated by...
Peace by Force. Peace had been won not by the truce which the British had offered ELAS, but by military force. In a pronouncement as stiff as his mustachios, Greece's new Premier, General Nicholas Plastiras, 62, brusquely warned ELAS that they had better capitulate politically too.
Disarmament First. In his nine-man Cabinet, Plastiras took the four portfolios of War, Navy, Air and Merchant Marine in addition to the 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...
But 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...
But ELAS showed no intention of doing so. It was still fighting fiercely at Patras, chief port of Western Greece. It was believed to control most of Greece. ELAS' withdrawal from Athens looked more & more like a strategic retreat. Liberated Athens looked like a Government-controlled island in a...