-31-#669, Eighteenth, from London.             
 
                                                            
 
 
Greek people will give about these matters when our purpose 
      of free election has been achieved. I would warn the committee 
      that if we are going to tear ourselves asunder in this island 
      over all the feuds and passions of the Balkan countries which 
      our arms and those of our Allies have liberated we shall be found 
      quite incapable of making our influence count in the great settlement 
      which awaits the end of the war. It is, I believe the intention 
      of the Regent and General Plastiras to broaden the government 
      continually but we really must leave this process to them and 
          not try to interfere with it from day to day.     
 
                                                            
 
 
It is only fair for me to tell the committee that I do not 
      believe that any of the existing authorities in Athens will ever 
      work as colleagues with the Communist leaders who assailed the 
      city and brought as they think all these miseries upon Greece. 
      There is a violent feeling throughout the liberated area that 
      there should be no amnesty. Even when we were there 3 weeks ago 
      and when we held only a small part of the city most of the roads 
      were dangerous. There were bands of men marching about poor clad 
      men with placards bearing the words "no amnesty." Passions 
      there were tense and I am told that they