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Show Greek devolution Sets Mev Trend Guerrilla Bands Instructed In Tenets of Communism By BAUKHAGE Stws Analyst and Commentator. UNU Service, 1616 Eye Street. N. W., Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON. The Greeks had a word for it the word revolution, 1 mean. It was antlstasis, I believe, as nearly as I can transliterate the Greek alphabet. But until very recently it meant something quite different from what it means in Greece today. I won't attempt to telescope the history of the Hellenes back to Helen ot Try- SK ' the flrst success" IN 11 I ful hlpbuilder, ' t ' 1 launchcd a th0U . Jir J sand ships, not by floating a war ' bond issue but on I I' her face, as it x-4Y were. But look- 7H V I I ,n baclt only ,n" -VA to the memory of our oldest diplo- ' j o m e of the pJa younger ones, we BAUKHAGE re amlliar wit.h, the program. It usually started with the "colonels." It wasn't a too strenuous or bloodthirsty blood-thirsty affair. A few colonels got together. to-gether. They marched on the palace or the war department or the state department, had a few polite words, put their own cabinet in. shot off few shots which damaged at most few more or less Innocent but curious curi-ous bystanders and that was that. But there came a change. The revolution which followed the "liberation" of the Greeks from Nazi occupation was quite a different differ-ent matter. It didn't come from the top and work down. It came from the bottom and worked up. The Allies had armed the "resistance," "resist-ance," the Greek patriots who fought the Germans. But while the Allies poured In such material aid as was possible, Just as they helped Tito In Yugoslavia, the Russians Were pouring in something else. Propaganda. The Allies learned, too late, the true physiognomy of the revolution which opposed the government gov-ernment The "liberation" was a revolt engineered and carried on by the enlisted men, not the high officers. And Its leaders were communist-indoctrinated. The majority of the rebelling Greeks were not Communists. They were not fighting to establish a communist com-munist regime, but to overthrow an !. autocratic Junta. But they were organized or-ganized and directed by Moscow-trained Moscow-trained leaders. Today there Is a "revolution" In Greece. The majority of the o-called o-called "guerrillas" are not Communists. Commu-nists. They are fighting to establish (Uiey think) a liberal Greek government. govern-ment. But all of their leaders are Communists. And the rank and file are being carefully and thoroughly indoctrinated in communism. They raid, they fight, they eat off the land, they use the weapons provided by the Allies. But out of each such fighting and eating day they take time out to go to school. These schools are conducted regularly from 10 to 12 and from 4 to 6 unless a battle or so Interrupts. Inter-rupts. In these schools the good Greek patriots are being thoroughly thor-oughly Instructed In the philosophy philoso-phy of Karl Marx, Nick Lenin and Joe Stalin. This la of record. rec-ord. It la fact, not fancy. Moscow Mos-cow would (unofficially, of course), probably boast of It rather than deny It. Those who graduate with sufficient communistic "honors" are appointed appoint-ed political commissars and attached at-tached to each guerrilla unit It Is easy to Imagine what would happen If these forces took over the government. Meanwhile, there Is no objection on the part of the agents of Moscow to have the Greeks set up "coalition" "coali-tion" governments they have had nearly a dozen, all of which failed because the leaders of the various parties represented could not cooperate. co-operate. The failure of these governments, the revolt, dissension, unrest, terrible ter-rible economic conditions, all contribute con-tribute to that great ally of communismchaos. commu-nismchaos. Conditions. That is the answer. The whole of the American policy of "aid to Greece and Turkey" is Intended In-tended to change present conditions. condi-tions. To change them the experts tell us we must: 1. Stop the warfare, assure personal per-sonal aecurlty to the people. 2. Feed them. 3. Restore their normal economic eco-nomic life, and aa result, their normal social life. Then see that they are let alone to take care of themselves. Communism Commu-nism then will die of malnutrition. |