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...most of the liberated countries of Europe last week there was, if not political peace, a political hush. Even in Greece the civil war had been halted by a truce (see below). Elsewhere there were no mass demonstrations, no riots in the streets. No crowds baited the police or shouted threateningly under government windows. What had caused this reckless tranquility? TIME Correspondent Harry Zinder, following the Allied forces as they slowly pushed back the Belgian bulge, reported one reason...
Thus was signed the truce which formally ended Greece's 42-day civil war. By its terms, ELAS would withdraw from a wide area around Athens and exchange prisoners with British and Greek Government forces. Fighting would end within three days. Meanwhile, General Scobie's forces continued mopping-up operations against ELAS units withdrawing into the hills...
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...
Still there was no pause in the Greek civil war. The truce talks continued. So did the shooting. Now Athenians in their cellars caught another sound in the cacophony of conflict: the whoosh of rockets from British strafing planes. In the barricaded streets and around the ruins on the storied hills the tide of fighting ebbed & flowed. British Lieut. General Ronald M. Scobie warned ELAS that he would attack "with all the arms at my disposal," did so next day. Sherman tanks, spitting shells, dispersed ELAS troops in Mount Lycabettus. Beaufighters scattered ELAS concentrations north of the capital...
...meanwhile learned a little more about Japanese mental processes. One of their cases was a Jap officer who discussed surrender at the water's edge, confident of the protection his flag of truce gave him. He asked 24 hours to make his decision: surrender or harakiri. But when he turned up 24 hours later, he had discovered another alternative. He politely informed the Americans that he had decided to stay in the jungle, politely withdrew...