head of the Gov- fand groups, Mm- istance move- és ip een 2 Na , Continued Government, and e 3 eos Ce 2 amongst all Greek political lead- sanction foreign intervention in both before the liberation of fee a and the Caserta (Italy) the internal problems of Greece. Greece and thereafter, to dis- 5 ers pane and to the agreement providing the plan.» On pages 10, 11 and 12 there solve that force to weaken the an re E for the occupation of Greece by . are documents testifying that National Liberation Front and te Book covers 4). British forces, the ELAS, the EAM-ELAS~ insured law to deliver the country to: the 3 May, 1944, to the EDES of Col. Zervas and and order as the Nazis were re- Greek monarcho-fascists and fone of the mort other armed units were to serve treating, preventing, at the quislings. uments- of the .. the basis of the military same time, serious damage to = ee eed Sead phase of the liberation. The quis- public eae the evacuating Hpedoed the first ling Security Battalions were SCCUPAHORTSts: ; HE whole structure of Bri- i political qeadove condemned not only in declara- There is documentary evi- ish Tory and Greek reaction- tions made by Papandreou but dence that while the EAM - ary pretexts and false pre- ‘andreou, to form S nity government in the Caserta agreement itself ELAS were doing everything texts and false pretenses be- in which they were characterized in their power—and they were gan to give way when on Nov. : Be already as “tools of the enemy.” the only ones with real power 99, 1944, the settlement of the “ritish agent) who A clause of the Caserta agree- to assure the peace and safe- military question reached a ty of their country, Premier show-down. In pages 22 26 of Papandreou and the British, to- the White Book, the evidence gether with the _collaboration- shows: ists and other monarcho-fascist 1. That on Nov. 22, Papan- elements, were scheming to gqreou accepted the plan of de- take over full control of the mobilization of all voluntary reneral confidence ment (p. 9) shows that British © as was decided General Scobie’s professed aim -fhe EAM finally to “restore law and order” was -mposition of Pa- illegal. It asserts that “restora- was pure British tion of law and order” is a “purely internal matter,” coming under the.exclusive jurisdiction State machine. units, including the Mountain - @ of the Greek Government. A Although the British admit Brigade (the latter in the form S clause giving the British oceupa- that the ELAS was virtually of being given indefinite of unity, for the tion forces the right to “restore the only armed force .which leaves) and the formation of a endship with ‘the law and order” was inserted or- contributed to the Allied cause national, non-political army. — - the sake of the iginally by the British diplomats, (as is shown in pages 27, 28, i 2. That suddenly, under Bri- - the EAM-ELAS but the ELAS spokesman was 29 of the EAM White Book), tish pressure Papandreou vio- 7 yvernment-in exile. quick to reject the first British there is clear evidence that the lated his signed pledge and re- ebanon agreement attempt to have the EAM-ELAS British aimed and schemed, fused to include the Mountain “I HAPPEN TO BE GOING THAT WAY... IT SHALL BE TOO HAPPEE TO TAKE YOU-- } EEF YOU LIKE! - ER--AH--I JUST [EES EETTO ™ ME YOU SPEAK, ) WANTED TO ASK YOu -- ER~WHERE IS --A-THE ZOO! ‘S i » 5. 4 \ S : 7 \ y OOH! you LATER, JOHNNIE AND HIS NEW AMERICAING WHATS THE MATIER, F 4 YONKEESS! FRIEND, CHI-CH!I, MAKE A STUDY HANE EVERY- BABY? ANYTHING _ 3 = OF THE MOON AND THE STARS...] [| THEENG >>: I CAN DO? Las a Ree P= é ao: WHILE er : FR ~ CI [am Gavi mer you, WE --- © YOu CAN, WN | re Tt ICHI-CHI/ I WAS ' JOHNNEE! v N PRETTY LONE- YOU CAN! Ye y SOME! : 4 f 38) Se" The National Resistance Front EET EES NOT SO MUCH I ASK... YOU COULD BREENG LEETLE THEENGS FROM AMERICA----- THEENGS WE DO NOT HAVE HERE, LIKE CAMERAS, RADIOS, LIKE THAT ! WE COULD SELL THEM HERE! THE PROFIT SURE, CHI-CHI/ GOSH, 1 DON'T ALIKE TO SEE BR YOU STARVE! £ GOSH! YOU CAN HELP ME,EEF YOu MEAN WHAT you say! WE EEN ELIROPE HANE SUFFERED SO MUCH , JOHNNEE J EET EES SO HARD FOR US TO GET. EVEN A LEETLE WOULD BE THAT'S ENORMOUS! _ BLACK osu MARKET! Soe Fe FEDERATED S yw Ses : f FEO EEA So- TP Pises oe — NERY WELL! THE OOH,DARLEENG! you == YONKEE EES LIKE HAVE THE BEEG BLUE Z ; [EYES OF A KIND MAN! J < PUTTY EEN MY HANDS* WEEL YOU DO =\ DS HE WEEL DO WHAT THEES FOR ME? . . CGI -OHNNEE! NO! E LEGAL! YOU YY ON THE GOODS! Brigade in the demobilization plan. 3. That the whole matter was under discussion and that the Ministers of the Left in the Pa- pandreou Government, the EAM Central Committee and the Com- munist Party were bending all their efforts to find a solution when General Scobie suddenly, and without any notice to the government ordered General Sarafis to dissolve the ELAS. ELAS commander Sarafis an- swered that he takes orders of such a nature only from the Greek Government. 4. That following the arbit- rary and scandalous interven- tion in the internal affairs of an Allied country, concerted planned attacks both against ELAS units and against the people demonstrating and pro- testing against foreign inter- vention were begun by the Greek monarcho-fascists under the protection of British bayon- ets, tanks, airplanes and naval guns, on Dee. 8, 4 and 5, 1944. When the Greek reactionary forces were overwhelmed in a day or two, and the Greek Gov- ernment and the British Mili- tary headquarters were con- fined within the limits of one or two square miles, of Athens, the British Army assumed the task of destroying whole blocks of the city, killing indiscrimin- ately men, women and children —a massacre unprecedented in its .character in all history. HOUSANDS were killed and tens of thousands captured. Up to Dee. 17, EAM-ELAS was reluctant to take hostages. It ’ finally had to retaliate psycho- logically by taking hostages but its treatment of them, in view of the utter lack of trans- portation facilities, housing and food supplies, was humane, ¢€s- pecially in contrast to the Bri- tish treatment of prisoners. In the midst of the bloody events of Dec.-Jan., an attempt was made by the political lead- ers to stop the massacre by forming a new government. Themistocles Sophoulis, Liberal - Party leader, was proposed and accepted as the head of this new government. Chur- chill, however, objected. because the Liberal leader. had told Am- bassador Leeper that he con- sidered himself a friend, not a slave, of Britain. The Varkia agreement signed on Feb. 12, 1945, ended the bloody affair. This agreement provides for general amnesty, freedom of press and assembly, trade union liberties and free elections within the year. A subsequent second volume of the White Book, covering the period of Feb. - June, 1945, proves factually that during later governments headed by Nicholas Plastiras and now by Petros Voulgaris, every point of the Varkiza agreement was violated. : In concluding I may say that the White Book of the EAM is the most stinging arraign- ment of British imperialism before the tribunal of history —an expose of its peculiar ug- liness in its last (as we be- lieve) phase of decadence and decay. The book also shows that the Greek people stood like a rock against this assault' as they stood against the assaults of Hitler and Mussolini in 1940- 1941. Once more, in their glori- ous history of 3,000 years, they proved that they know how to defend democracy and liberty at any price in blood and life. SATURDAY, OCT. 6, 1945 si net im tpt ENS OS Sree