GREECE: Death and Inflation

Greece was free of organized German resistance last week—but not of the twin problems of inflation and the EAM.

Newly liberated Salonika was almost entirely in the hands of EAM's combat group, the ELAS, and the EAM was almost entirely in the hands of Greek Communists. In the Peloponnesus, the Horofylaki (national constabulary) had ceased to exist. It had been ousted by ELAS members. At Kalamai, when the lights were turned on for the first time in three-and-a-half years, Greeks flocked joyously to the town square, found seven, men hanging, a dozen more stabbed to death. Among the dead: Kalamai's...

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