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...Beyrouth, Greek Premier George Papandreou, backed by Churchill, talked Stalinist leaders of the Greek underground into going Britain...
...Beyrouth, Greece's new Premier George Papandreou seemed to be getting somewhere...
...British diplomacy sighed with relief; three weeks of frantic antics in the cabinet, a nervous treble to the ominous bass of mutiny in wartime, had almost wrecked the careful plans to keep the Greeks in London's orbit. Winston Churchill thought it wise to put his stamp on Papandreou, stress once more that Britain is not irrevocably wedded to King George of Greece. Said Churchill: "His Majesty's Government will give you all support. . . . The Nazi tyrant must be destroyed. . . . After this ... the Greek nation, free from foreign interference, will choose the form of democratic government under which...
...Office. One riddle remained: would the men of the mountains, the guerrillas of the Communist-led EAM and the middle-road EDES, linked now in a committee of liberation that might become a government any day, accept Papandreou as a genuine member of the resistance movement? Or would they say that he had knuckled under to the King to get himself the premiership? Papandreou had dropped a puzzling remark: "Greek politics have changed. We are no longer royalists or republicans. Just nationalists or extreme left-wingers." The committeemen of the mountains were in touch with Tito of Yugoslavia...
Last week three representatives of EAM and one from EDES were reported in Syria, on their way to Cairo. They were also reported having trouble getting permits to enter British-managed territory. Their visit will determine whether Papandreou: 1) achieves a cabinet of national unity, 2) joins his predecessors in an overcrowded limbo...