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USSIAN and Polish members of the United Na-
tions Commission investigating Greek border
incidents, accompanied by Yugoslav, Bulgarian
and Albanian liaison officials, returned this week from
an arduous trip to interview General Markos,
mander-in-chief of the Greek guerilla forces.
reported that they had travelled steadily for four days,
with only a few hours sleep
the Greek partisan leader in
ets southwest of Mount Olympus.
American and other members of the commission had
abandoned their efforts to interview Markos.

Members of the commission who made the trip to
Markos’ headquarters reported that he had told them:
“The English must go and the Americans
come if there is to be peace in Greece.” They said
they had made part of the journey on
Part of it on foot in constant
Greek army pilots flying British Spitfires.

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SALONIKA.

com-
They

each night, to seek out

his mountain headquart-
Earlier, British,

must not

donkeys and
fear of being strafed by

by HOWARD FAST

I

my grave. I speak for

DIED today, and there is no one to remember, to bear
my pall, to weep over me, to press down the earth on
myself and for my comrades,

because who else will speak? It is a bitter thing to be
anonymous, to have said of you only this:

“The 1,500-ton Greek ship, Himara, went down

after striking a mine off the

Forty Greek guerillas, who
perished.

I was one of the forty who
peated, a cold death, a hope-
nt angry death for a man with

arm blood and the love of

©, @ man who could remember ~
# that moment the women he
Sha loved, the children he had
h hered, the fresh white bread
© had eaten and the strong
Wine he had tasted. 3

se have no name; I have no
ee I will have»no name until

at time in the long future
es they make a name for

€ and for my comrades; but
a order that they may have
bok of the facts, know what
na were and why we did what
We did, I will put down here
ae Own story, directly, and in as

words as possible.

; Be is such a common, simple
ee that it will serve for my
t Tades as well; but is it not
Tue that the sfmplest motives
are those most easily forgotten?

the hills of Macedon, where
ae sky is bluer than anywhere
“se in the world, where the wind
hg warmer, I had four broth-
s and three sisters, for big
amilies were the way in that
ay My father was a carpen-
is » and when I was old enough
*© handle a plane and a ham-
Mer, I learneg his trade. |

| WAS born 30 years ago in
t

i penat else is there to say? I
a ee in the hills. When I
ad a free day I lay in the

sad and talked to the shep-
aS ie and heard the old tales

he various and many times

; aes our people fought for
ie freedom; for ours is an old

d and our fight an old fight.

I fell in love with many girls,

_ *€cause the blood ran strong in
NY Lee but the one I married
ew like a poppy from our hill-

sey her eyes as dark as the

th ds and her lips as red as
© petals.

We had two children, a boy
8nd a girl, before Mussolini
(°rdered his fascists into our

Country and I went to fight
them,

There were tears but no
poubts when I went to fight the
ascists; this was not a new
‘hing for a Greek to do. For.
Months we fought them, and
with all their power the fas-
Cists could not advance a foot
Our land.

ao they calleq their allies, the
Re rnead barbarians of the
orth, and with their dive bomb-

FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1947

batren island of Kavaliano.
were chained to the hold,

ers, they roared down into our
beautiful land.

They were too much for us,
and they had allies among our
own people;,when they had oc-
cupied all of our tiny country,
they announced that they had
conquered us.

BS we were not conquered
as long as brave men lived.
I went home, and we formed 2
little band of men who pledged
themselves to fight for freedom

until the last fascist was dead’

or driven ‘out of dur land.

We said goodbye to our wives
and children, and we went into
the hills and continued the
fight¢ And since they could not
defeat us, or frighten us, the

fascists murdered. our wives and

children and laid waste our
homes.
Yet we fought on. We had

nothing left but freedom now,
no more to lose. The tears had
been shed and we were beyond
tears. And finally, the day of
our liberation came—or at least
what we thought of as the day
of our liberation. The Germans
fell back beneath the might of
the United Nations, and we
shouldered our arms and march-
ed down to the city of Athens.

’ And. then we discovereq that
the fascists were not dead. In
the streets of Athens, I saw
women and _ children mowed
down by British guns. I saw
workers lined up and shot. I
saw British bayonets pressing
our fifth columnists back into
power. So with my comrades I
went back to the hills to con-
tinue the fight.

But it was not so easy now.
Where the fascists and the

nazis had failed, traitors from ~
‘our own people succeeded. We

were led into a trap. We were
chained. We were put into a

concentration camp guarded by

British troops, and we were
systematically starved and beat-
en. And then still in our chains,
we were marched. aboard the
Eimara to be sent into exile.

Remember me. I lie at the
bottom of the sea, where my
chains have borne me. I have
no name, no face, no family—
no one to call for me or shed
a tear.

But if, you remember for long
enough, then some day they will

give a name to me and my .

comrades and honor us, not
with tears, but with the brave
new world we dreamed of.

RA TN

‘Hitler could not subdue Greece’

by JAMES S. ALLEN |

T IS admitted on all sides,
that the Greek government -
is corrupt ang unworthy of sup-
port. But the talk is now of
supplying Greek Royalist-fas-
cists with arms to stem ‘So-
viet expansion’ as not so long
ago the appeasers urged sup-
port of the Nazis to stop Bol-
shevism. And since no evidence
can be produced of Soviet inter-
vention in Greece, which has
been the special domain of the
British since liberation, the fin-
ger is- pointed at the border :
countries of Yugoslavia, Bul-
garia and Albania. :

“Their crime is that they have

successfully stayed out of the
orbit of Anglo-American power,
thereby avoiding the chaos and
reaction of Greece, and are
therefore -Soviet ‘puppets’. And
the inference is that if Greece
should clean out its fascists and
become a democracy, she will
for some unexplained reason be-
come a danger to the USS.

Even the pretense of mnon-
intervention is lacking. It is

hoped that the British can be

prevailed upon to keep their
troops in Greece for the dirty
work, while the U.S. takes over
the task of building a Greek
army and pumping blood into
the decrepit body of Greek re-
action.

It is a small country,
say, as if size is a measure of
crime.

Small countries can make big
wars. Little Serbia set off World
War One. Little Ethiopia, little
Austria, little Czechoslovakia,
little Spain, remote Manchuria
and tiny Danzig marked the
path of Axis aggression.

How many times must Greece
be crucified? It was the first
victim of post-Axis agression,

when British tanks turned their.

guns on the people of Athens
even before Hitler fell.

Puppets followed puppets in
regimes set up in rapid succes-
sion, each more depraved than
the last. The monarchy was re-

some

stored under false pretences.
But the people who had stop-
ped the Italian Army, who then
resisted the German  occupa-
tion with great heroism, and
struck the final blows of their
liberation before an Allied sol-
dier had set foot on Greek soil,

came to hate the British just —

as they had despised the Ger--
mans. ‘

Are they now to learn how
to hate the Americans also?

If President Truman’s pro-
posals are carried, the U.S. may
get into a war for which it did
not bargain. Britain is a mighty
power when compared to Greece.
Yet she cannot conquer that
country. Even Germany never
succeeded in pacifying Greece.

The ‘men of destiny’ may
prate about the new world re-
sponsibilties of America. The
Greek patriot who equips him-
self with American
tured. from fascists will have

another name for destiny. It

will not be very different from
what they called the Italians,
the Germans and the Britons.

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