GREECE: Diary

The Greek people are still caught daily in the crossfire between Communism, which aims at making Greece a vassal of Russia, and an anti-Communist Government, which is stupid and inefficient, although dedicated to Greek independence. Last week's day-to-day crossfire:

Monday. General Napoleon Zervas, Minister of Public Order, declared in his newspaper that his own colleagues in the Greek Army were incompetents who had suffered a "classical, crashing failure" in their campaign against Greece's Communist guerrillas. The Greek Army commander at Komontine, in Thrace, announced that he would henceforth safeguard his troops and supplies by sending a truckload of Communist prisoners...

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