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ranks who did not like it and who began to see the effect 
      of that even before the fighting broke out in Athens and after 
      the fighting broke out all the more moderate elements of what 
      is called the EAM organization flaked away. That was very noticeable 
      to me, to who had been to Athens before when I returned with 
      the Prime Minister at Christmas time, because when this conference 
      which he summond took place to which the ELAS representatives 
      came, I thought that they would do their best to show as broad 
      a representation as possible obviously, in order to impress us 
      and the world of their representative character. It was not so. 
      Their representatives to the conference were three Communists 
      and dominated by the Secretary General of the Communist Party. 
      Those were the men who came to negotiate at this meeting. What 
      I submit, and I have little doubt of it myself but I cannot prove 
      it, that in the progress of the fighting all the elements except 
      the hard Communist core flaked away in disapproval of the policy 
      which the Communist leaders were adopting. (An Honorable member: 
      "What proof have you?") No proof, but I will try to 
      give some. I will try to prove to the satisfaction of the House 
      that the policy we have pursued was the only policy open to us 
                and was a just and correct policy.          
 
                                                            
 
 
Sir Richard Mcland