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Be reinstated or left their positions. No one can stand for 
      that and I want to be very careful not to lead the Hon. Gentleman 
      the Member for Ebbw Vale into any ideas that I am promising something 
          that goes beyond the actual words I have used.    
 
                                                            
 
 
As I say this principle which I have advised has been accepted 
      by the Greek Government and I have no doubt it will be observed 
      while any of our forces remain in the country but after that 
      Greece will be completely free and sovereign and I cannot tell 
      at all by what terrible feuds the wrangle may be carried on. 
      There is, however; one further reservation, which I must make. 
      The promise of "no proscription" or amnesty--whichever 
      term you prefer--is dependent as we see it upon the treatment 
      and delivery of the hostages and no amnesty could be declared 
      while the hostages were held in the grip of ELAS we thought it 
      better that the fighting should stop. It is always a good thing 
      for the firing to leave off in a case like this when you wish 
      to reach a parley. We thought it better for the fighting to stop 
      and that whatever parley took place about hostages would go on 
      more quickly after firing left off than before. But let there 
      be no mistake the name of Britain and