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                  #680, Nineteenth, from London             
 
                                                            
 
 
join together and to think only about the Germans for the 
      time being. What happened? A very few weeks after that ELAS broke 
      this agreement and they attacked and destroyed this guerrilla 
      band of EKKA. They murdered its 1eader, one Col. Pasros against 
      whom, as far as I have been able to discover, no plausible charge 
           has ever been brought, even by ELAS itself.      
 
                       (Mr. Eden speaking)                  
 
                                                            
 
 
So sir, I say even before the German withdrawal there were, 
      it appeared to us, unmistakable signs that it was the ambition 
      of ELAS to seize control of the country by force. Here let me 
      add His Majesty's Government have never been opposed to EAM becoming 
      the government of GREECE, but what we have said and what we do 
      say is that they have no right to that position except from the 
      medium of the ballot box, whereas their attempt has been, as 
      we see it, to seize power with the weapons provided for them 
                to do battle against the Germans.           
 
                                                            
 
 
                      Mr. Cocks rose.                       
 
                                                            
 
 
Mr. Eden: I have all the notes of the Honorable Gentleman's 
      Speech and I will answer him as I go along. If I do not, by all 
      means let him interrupt. As I said this evidence of the tendency 
      of ELAS to seize power rather than to be elected to power had 
      its effect upon the organization itself. There were many in the 
      ranks who