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Free Greece explained

A change in the perspectives of the heroic Greek Communist Party has just been made public by the Free Greece radio, which explains the “temporary retreat” on the mi- litary plane, and the new emphasis on all-around economic and politi- cal struggle to defend the Greek demberatio government.

The change was formally regis- tered at the sixth plenary session of the Greek Communist Central Committee, on October 9, 1949, and the announcement broadcast by

the Free Greece radio on Novem- ber 27,

The Greek Communists have de- cided: “to stop the armed struggle, leaving only small partisan detach- ments as a means of pressure for as much democratization as pOs- sible of the political life of the country on the basis of the propo- sals of the Soviet Union (in the UN) and as a form of defense against the murderous orgy of the state and parastate organs of monarcho- fascism.”

Instead of regular armed strug- gle, which suffered a defeat during the August battles in the Vitzi- Grammos area, the Greek Commu- nist party has decided “to transfer the center of gravity of its work to the’ organization and leadership of economic jand political struggles of all strata of the working: people.

Although the people’s revolutio- nary movement, says the commu- nique, “has: been forced to make a temporary retreat,” the pros- pect, even under new conditions, remains a prospect of victorious struggle against the foreign oc- cupation and monarcho-fascism.” |

Examining the main reasons for failure of the military resistance last summer, the Greek Commu- nists point to their previoys meet- ing last winter, which gave @ pers- pective of victory based on acquir- ing sufficient reserves for the Dem- ocratic army. t

The question of reserves was not solved. The army was unable to meet its supply needs. Rather than continue the military strug- gle in a “petty-bourgeois spirit of desperation and lack of perspec- tive,” thus giving the adversary

' the possibility of dealing the Demo-

cratic army a_ crushing defeat, a cease-fire and an organized retreat was the only course left.

This tactic prevented monarcho- fascism from achieving its strategic objective, and turn the eyes of all Greek democratic forces to the struggle on the political plane against the fascist menace.

Why wasn’t the problem of re- serves solved? "the communique

-asks. It gives two main reasons. |

First, strengthening of the mcm- archo-fascist army by the Ameri- can military mission, led by James Van Fleet; second, the treachery of Tito’s Yugoslavia, which closed the border to the democratic army, strove to break unity of free Greeks and Slav- Macedonians in the north and set up a “gang of traitors and deserters from our struggle” in ‘Skoluje, organizing ideological and military desertion in the Democratic army.

The Greek Communist statement reveals that as early as 1943 the Titoites had been working to un- dermine the Greek democratic movement: The final act came when Tito gave the Greek monar- cho-fascists permission this summer to cross Yugoslav territory and strike at the Democratic army s flank at Kaimaktsilan. Moreover, says the statement, “pe stabbed us in the back with his own forces during the fierce battles of Vitsi.’

The Communist party sets as’ its main task now the welding of “all progressive forces in @ common front of struggle for the demands of the people, for demobilization and for the defense of peace.”

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Israeli protests

Israeli school children swear a mass oath of allegiance at the tomb of Theodor Herzi. The pilgrimage to the tomb of the founder of Zionism was also the occasion for protests against the UN deci- ‘sion to make Jerusalem an international city, protests which, how- ever inspired, are seen as endangering a democratic solution of the whole Palestinian problem.

Churchill made secret plea for Nazi criminal

ila ZURICH Winston Churchill, recent candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize, was among the secret witnesses testifying for Nazi General Erich von Mann-

stein in the Hamburg court, an unimpeachable source here reveals. (Last

July, Churchill donated $100 to a von Mannstein defense fund.) ;

The Hamburg courtroom, from which the press was barred for two days, was virtually fortified and all) windows and doors were heavily shielded with thick cloth..

murder and torture “whether or not von Mannstein was responsible for it” was “after all committed on the soil of Poland and the Soviet Union,” to neither of which Bri- tish “justice” was willing to deliver this war criminal.

But inside, according to the same source, Churchill, who during the heroic defense of Stalingfad was already seeking to create a bloc with Nazi Germany against the So- viet Union, put all his considerable oratory at the disposal of a: war criminal responsible for the death of at least half a million men, wo- men and children, civilian’ and military, who were shot, hanged or burned alive, starved and tortured.

Churchill, according to the same source, also insisted that von Mann- stein “was only carrying out his military duties.”

Von Mannstein, sentenced to 18 years imprisonment by the British court, which convicted him on nine charges and acquitted him of eight others, promptly entered his appeal this week.

Defense pléa entered by Church- ill was said by the same source to be based upon the argument that

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price control broadcasts sparked the gress for the Republican party.

and atomic secrets to the Soviet Union throughout World War II. So far he has named Harry Hop- kins, a close. personal advisor to Roosevelt, and Henry Wallace, at that time vice-president of the U.S., and chairman of the Bureau of Economic Warfare.

Lewis’ blast against Wallace seems to have been chosen with precision. Wallace is now the titular leader of the “Progressive party, and only the day before Lewis made - daily newspaper headlines across the continent with his sensational ‘disclosures’, the Progressives held a three- day conference-at which they for- mulated a four-point proposal to preserve the peace and take the American people off a “cold war” economy of rising living costs and increasing unemployment.

The story backfired almost as soon as it hit the street, with news- papermen as well as congressional figures expressing doubt concern- ing it. And-the more details Lewis managed to bring in for substantia-

tion, the more loopholes appeared. Nevertheless, despite the palpable fraud of the yarn, it seemed likely that the gutter press would conti- nue to exploit it as a weapon of hysteria. ‘ :

Wallace has replied, branding the

attempt to discredit the name and program of the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

But it is taken for granted by

entire campaign as false and an.

ewis hoax seen inked to 1950 Republican bid

By ROB F. HALL

WASHINGTON

Fulton J. Lewis, Jr., the garrulous radio commentator whose ant-

Republicans’ successful 1946 elec-

tion campaign,-has apparently opened the 1950 drive to recapture Con- His theme, as it has been developed, is that highly placed figures in the Roosevelt administration shipped uranium

Progressives issue

four-point program —NEW YORK National committee and state

leaders of the Progressive party,

meeting in New York early this _ month, adopted this four-point program:

1., Immediately propose to the UN

a-treaty to outlaw the atomic bomb as a weapon of war.

2. Immediately recognize the new and existing governments of China atid establish normal . trade relations with it.

3. Remove existing restrictions of trade with Eastern Europe and the USSR.

4. Propose a four-power agree- ’ ment reaffirming the Potsdam . declaration by providing that

_each of the four powers shall prevent éstablishment of any German armed. forces or mili- tary formations in its zone. _

informed :people here that the Lew- is campaign is aimed at the peace movement in general. And as the publicity-hungry House un-Ameri- cans go on with their mock cere- monies it is expected other leaders of the opposition to the Truman administration’s “cold war’ pro- gram will also be dragged in the

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