Published by New Century Publishers, 832 Broadway, New York 3, N. Y.
April, 1948 209 PRINTED IN U.S.A.


I. AMERICANS ARE KILLING GREEKS
Not a single Greek mother is taken from her children and
exiled to the islands without the knowledge and consent of
American officials in Greece. Not a single Greek youth, acclaimed
for his deeds in the Resistance, is shot without the consent of
Dwight Griswold, head of the American Mission in Athens. Not
a single dawn is broken by the clump of heavy boots outside the
door without the approval of President Truman's representatives
in Greece.
The whole world knows this.
The Greek Royalist Army has been equipped with millions of
dollars' worth of American military equipment to fight the Greek
people.
U.S. officers and men are at the front with the Royalist Army
taking active part in the fighting—advising, even leading the
troops. Enlisted men are sent' into the country to give villagers
"orientation" lectures on supporting the war against their brothers
in the mountains.
A top U.S. Army official, Lieutenant General James Van Fleet,
passes out the orders for the attacks and offensives and raids on
villages from his place at the War Council table in Athens.
You have seen the pictures of their victims in the newspapers:
straggling lines of men and women facing the firing squads of
the American-supported Greek government. Gray men and young
men, girls with rough long hair. Some with faces lifted, singing,
some with arms raised in last defiance. By fours and sixes and
eights, decent people are being shot every day in the week. .
Firing squads have already executed over 1,100. Fifty of them
women. Nearly 1,000 of them since the announcement of the
Truman Doctrine.
Thousands of resistance veterans, trade unionists, other demo-
crats, including women pregnant and with children, have been
imprisoned and exiled to island concentration camps.
Over 650,000 people have been uprooted from their homes
by the raids and terror of the Royalist Army and gendarmerie,
and are homeless, diseased and starving.
Officials of the General Confederation of Labor and of the
Trade Union Councils have been arrested and exiled, and hand-
picked government stooges installed in their places.
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The Greek people have been fighting against concentration
camps and slave law for over eight years now.
Colonel A. W. Sheppard, who was two years in Greece with
the British Economic Mission, has said:
Half of the whole American armed forces could not defeat
the guerrillas for the same reasons that the British Army could
not defeat the American colonists in the War of Independence.
It has been truly said that "thrice armed is he whose cause is
just."
D. THE GREEK PEOPLE DEFY HITLER
The Greek people have had no peace for eight years.
For many years before the war, Greece was ruled by a dicta-
torship directed from the British foreign office. The British in-
stalled King George (a relative of British royalty) on the throne
in 1936, and Dictator John Metaxas carried out their orders.
There were exiles and executions then, too.
You will remember how elated you were when the Greek people
chalked up victory after victory against Mussolini's troops in
1940. Those were the amazing first victories in the people's re-
sistance to fascism. Deserted by their government and their gen-
erals, the people of Greece were subdued only when the Germans
and Bulgarian fascist troops turned the full brunt of the blitzkreig
against them. And then not for long.
Early in the days of the occupation the Communist Party of
Greece initiated formation of the E.A.M. political coalition. It was
a common front of eight political parties, among them the
Agrarian Party, the Communist Party, the Democratic Radical,
and so on. It represented over 80 per cent of the Greek people.
They united the people to fight the Nazis and formed a fighting
wing which became a legend among the stories of resistance move-
ments. This was the E.L.A.S.
As early as 1943, the British foreign office started plotting with
the Greek Royalists in Cairo to return King George once more
to the throne after the war and keep their stranglehold on Greece.
During the war many statements released from King George's
headquarters in Cairo tried to confuse the Greek people and keep
from the world the story of the E.L.A.S. resistance and the Greek
people's demands for a democratic republic. Winston Churchill
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forced on the people by these conditions. The British people,
faced with increasing economic difficulties at home, demanded
withdrawal of British troops, and an end to "operation rat-hole."
That was where the Marshall Plan and Truman Doctrine came
in. Up until March 12, 1947, when President Truman announced
his program for Greece and Turkey, Britain together with
U.N.R.R.A. had spent a total of $800,000,000 in Greece. It was
an expense the British Empire, worn-out from war, and attempting
to reconstruct its economy on the out-moded prewar basis, could
not keep up.
The United States, which had emerged from the war the most
powerful capitalist nation in the world, took advantage of Britain's
every weakness. First there was a loan to the British government.
It became starkly evident that the U.S. State Department would
pay Britain's way where it chose, always holding the strings on
the British people's own aspirations for a real socialization pro-
gram. Among other things, the British foreign office conceded the
State Department domination in Greece.
President Truman's proclamation of the Truman Doctrine was
his administration's first open declaration of this policy to extend
American control over large parts of the world—by force, if
necessary. It was couched in Hitlerian phrases about "stopping
Communism."
Everyone recognized it for a military program and very soon
Truman stopped talking about reconstruction. "The rebellion,"
he said, must first be liquidated.
When Dwight Griswold and his mission arrived in Athens in
July the Royalists extended them a royal welcome. There were
to be a few minor disagreements, on the formation of the present
Sofoulis cabinet, for instance—a move initiated by the Americans
to give the Royalists a more respectable front for the world.
But the American officials were guaranteed power in black and
white—by a note from the Greek government, and by an agree-
ment putting the Marshall-Truman Doctrine into operation.
The Royalists had signed Greece over to the State Department.
It was an American colony, and Truman's representatives came
as colonial administrators.
What country in jhe world could accept such terms at any price
and pretend independence?—terms which gave a foreign power
control of all important government departments: civil service,
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visional government, and a new, free election—without terror,
without the threat of foreign arms.
Today the situation has changed. The Democratic government
has no quarter for political leaders who have permitted Greece
to be colonized by American finance and armaments. It is willing
to deal only with democratic political parties which stand and
fight for Greek independence. Accordingly, it has gone ahead
with an amnesty program of its own, based on the "reconciliation"
principle—the unity of the whole Greek people. It permits any
Greek citizen to join its fight for liberation without fear of
reprisal for past acquiescence to the mbnarcho-fascist policies.
The Democratic government has also proceeded with nation-
alization of the large landed estates. King Paul's 8,000-acre estate
in Thessaly, for instance, has been divided among peasants dis-
possessed by the ravages of the Royalist Army.
It guarantees trade union rights—the right to strike, the
40-hour week, vacations. The lockout is outlawed.
It guarantees free education—furnishes textbooks and other
equipment, and provides education in their own language for the
Slavic and Turkish national groups.
It has initiated special measures to alleviate the economic
difficulties of the people living in liberated territory, such as
liquidating all debts payable to the agricultural bank. One of its
biggest projects is the constant resettlement of peasants displaced
by the attacks of the Royalists. ,
VII. U.N. BALKANS COMMISSION: WHITEWASH
FOR THE BIG LIE
You are probabby wondering about the "assistance" which the
Athens government and American officials claim the Democratic
government and Army is getting from Albania, Bulgaria and
Yugoslavia. The pity is that there has been no assistance at all.
The .charges of assistance and invasions have been baseless
howlings. And if there had been assistance, it could hardly be
grounds for charging "threat to the peace," when the United States
government is in fact feeding the fires of war with millions of
dollars' worth of arms and equipment to the Greek quislings.
Let us examine the "evidence" the Athens government advanced
for these charges when the United Nations sent its Investigating
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outlay for the necessities of everyday living. For with prices
spiralling, the Marshall Plan is gravy for the American trusts.
And there's another price. The current deportation drive is
aimed first of all at men and women who expose this war policy,
who fight the enslavement of the Taft-Hartley Law, who lead
the struggle for price controls, and speak up for the masses of
Negro people who demand their rights as citizens, for the masses
of Jewish people who protest the State Department's betrayal of
the Jews of Palestine.
The vast majority of people in the world do not want another
war any more than you do. They are organizing in- every country
to make themselves heard. The countries of eastern Europe are
consolidating their new republics, ever watchful for plotters
against their reconstruction and peace-building programs.
But that is precisely the kind of thing that infuriates the she-
wolf whose lair is Wall Street. Deprived of their old stamping
grounds for exploitation and profit because the people have
claimed their resources and industries for themselves, the bankers
and trusts howl with anguish. If atom bomb threats and hunger-
baiting do not work, the guns go off—as in Greece. If the Greek
people won't give in to guns in the hands of Royalist-fascist
troops, then American troops must go.
But Hitler with gas chambers and crematoriums could not ex-
terminate the demand of people to be free.
It is not necessary for American would-be Hitlers to learn
this the hard way, or for us to learn what our government is up
to the way the German and Italian people did. World War II
could have been stopped in Spain. World War III can be stopped
in Greece.
That means that the Marshall-Truman program must be scuttled
and a program of genuine reconstruction and peaceful trade
adopted.
You can vote for this kind of a peace program in November.
The Republican-Democrat Marshall Plan parties are opposed
by a man who speaks in the tradition of the President who
wanted the Greek people to have a chance to solve their problems
through "free democratic processes," who put bread before bul--
lets.
Henry Wallace has proposed a program of foreign aid in this
tradition—a program for reconstruction and trade, for dealing
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