Both British and Greek soldiers in Athens have been perplexed by the fact that Americans, though allies of Greece and Britain, took no part in the struggle against ELAS. But last week two young U.S. Army doctors helped solve the most serious problem left unsolved by the truce —the fate of some 10,000 civilian hostages captured and held by the ELAS forces.
The Americans were Captain Robert Moyers of Iowa, and Captain Harvey Dane of New York. Both had spent many months with the ELAS guerrillas, tending their sick and wounded during the German occupation of Greece. With British permission,...
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