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time tried to lead another rival guerrilla band and he was 
      brought in by force to EAM and was a prisoner for some time until 
      he was good enough to be their general. This rivalry between 
      EDES and ELAS cannot be explained on the ground that ELAS were 
      purely democratic and EDES bands were purely reactionary, that 
      is not so. I have read the charter of EDES. I should say that 
      it was as near as can be an attempt to describe a socialist heaven 
      if such a conception can be expressed by anybody who is a member 
      of the Tory Party. Is near as might that Seemed to be their program 
      and yet there was from the outset this rivalry - a rivalry which, 
      I believe, is large based on the determination of some of EAM 
      leaders that no one was going to share with them the resistance 
                       movement in Greece.                  
 
                                                            
 
 
Petty Officer Herbert (Oxford University): Will the Right 
             Honorable Gentleman lay it on the table?       
 
      Mr. Eden: We are preparing a White Paper and I hope that we can 
      make it quite interesting. There was another organization, a 
      military band called EKKA which was another guerrilla organization. 
      This is worth noting as an indication of developments which take 
      place. In February of last year our officers in Greece who played 
      a really magnificent part in trying to hold these warring guerrilla 
      elements together se-cured a truce and all these various bands 
      agreed to join together