by JAMES S. ALLEN T seems that border invasion, international brigades and dire threats to the security of Ashtabula can be created at will for the benefit of the Congress of the United | States. At least, that appears to be the case in Greece. The other day, after the usual inner sanctum meetings with the state department, Congress finally shouted its roval of the $400,000,000 appropriation for the Greek and Turkish democracies, and supplied $350,000,000 relief for some prospective Western bloc countries, after cutting out Poland and Hungary. On the following day Greece seem- ed a haven of peace as com- pared with the lurid picture of the ~previous weeks. A’ spokes- of EE en a par with Uncle Quixote’s Search for windmills in Greece, at least serve to enlighten the - world on the newer version of the Truman Doctrine. Se RTUNATELY, it is the Americans who stand most ‘FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1947 ‘to the in need of enlightment at the moment. : When the Greco-Turkish aid bill was being debated I said that one of the first effects of this measure would be increased patriotic resistance by the Greek people agatnst American intervention. I also pointed out that despite official assurance contrary, the effort to carry out the Truman Doctrine would lead to the dispatch of American troops to Greece. Now most correspondents writ- ing directly from Greece agree that the democratic forces gath- ered in the EAM are growing stronger daily, that the guerillas in Northern and Central Greece enjoy widespread popular sup- port and are constantly grow- ing in strength. i As one writer put it, the Truman Doctrine has just about destroyed the so-called liberal center, while encouraging the extreme right wing and fascist elements in the present regime. The millions of dollars worth of military supplies now being rushed to Greece as well as the advice of the American military mission will avail little. Like the royalist dictatorship the army is dominated by the collected scum of previous dictatorships and by Nazi collaborators. The common Greek soldier does not . want to fight his own people. The army lacks discipline and morale, and desertions increase as the soldiers take to the hills. aimed assurances by the administration that at least half of the Greek grant will be spent for peaceful reconstruc- tion have been forgotten. Instead the entire emphasis is upon military measures to fight the ‘bandits.’ Dwight Griswold leaves for Athens as American. administrator with a pledge that $150,000,000 will be used imme- diately to reorganize the Greek army—but with whom and from what? The American fleet in the Meditérranean is readied for possible action in Greek ports. The Truman Doctrine is lead- ing towards direct military in- tervention by the United States in Greece. The belligerent tone of the American delegation at the Security Council confirms this. The demand for a UN mil- itary force to ‘safeguard’ the Greek borders has for its aim to pave the way for the dis- Ppetch of American troops to Greece. A well-equipped German army was unable to defeat the guer- illas. Britain maintained 50,000 troops in Greece, and for two years attempted to intimidate the Greek people. The _ result- ing mess has been taken over by the United States, and under the Truman Doctrine it is pro- posed only to do more of the same thing. Let the U.S. get out of Greece and turn the entire situation over to the Unit- ed Nations, before the Ameri- can people themselves find themselves well along the road to war. : * Camera tells another story. by BARNARD RUBIN i HE majority of the UN Balkan Commission must have completely ignored its travels in Greece’ when it blamed “outside influences” (Yugoslavia, .ete.) for the hell- ish situation’ in Greece. The UN films, only a small part of which has been seen by the public in the newsreels, are conclusive proof that the Greek people support’ the Greek partisans—and hate, fear and despise their present fas- cist government. When the members of the UN Commission arrived | in Greece they were met in Ath- by a tremendous mass featuring ban- ens demonstration ners reading: Bring Democracy to Greece, Britain brought Fas- cisrh to Greece, Dissolve the Parliament, Get Britain Out Blum blames Leon Blum, French Socialist leader and former premier, de- clared in his party organ, ‘Le Populaire,’ recently that every- body in the United Nations Organization and in liberal cir- cles in Europe was now con- vinced that the present Greek government by continuing in power “fed and aggravated civil war.” Deriding the -official reasons given for the mass arrests of of Greece, etc. The camera man caught this. When the commission visited the concentration camps, where the heroes of the anti-Nazi fighting are suffering, the camera recorded an act of in- credible heroism. As the members passed by, the prisoners lined up against the barbed wire. Each one had ‘a piece of paper held to his chest, with one word in large letters written on it. The mem- bers walking by were thus able to see a line of human chests forming human slogans: Get the British Out of Greece. There Is No Justice From This Government, and the like. The UN camera recorded all this—and yet the commission in its majority findings delib- erately ignored its own incon- trovertible evidence. government alleged Communists in Greece, Blum said the arrests. had quite evidently been carefully prepared long beforehand. He charged that the Greek government had rounded up in a single haul all its adversar- ies, Communist or otherwise, | imprisoned them, deported them, shot them, and overriden what remained of constitution- al guarantees—all in the name of liberty. t Free Home Delivery ee eae oe BOTTLED — BEER | c.0.D. 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