Europe's economic and political crisis was reflected in the crises of five cabinets those of Greece, Italy, Belgium, Rumania and the Polish Government in Exile. But the focus was on Greece. Greece was dangerously near, if not already in, civil war.
Blood in Athens. It was a sun-drenched Sunday. But British Tommies and grey-clad Greek police rimmed Athens' Constitution Square. Premier George Papandreou had forbidden a demonstration by the Communist-controlled EAM. Presently the sound of thousands of people marching and chanting swelled and ebbed like surf. The marchers broke a police cordon. They...
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