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                  #680, Nineteenth, from London             
 
                                                            
 
 
Mr. Eden: The Honorable Gentleman wants to hear what is the 
      manifesto of the Greek Socialist Party and I will tell him. It 
                              says:                         
 
                                                            
 
 
"The Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the 
      Socialist Party in Greece, after succeeding in restoring its 
      organization which it had not succeeded in doing owing to the 
      recent tragic events, assembled with almost a full meeting and 
      with the cooperation of representatives of the party organization 
      in Macedonia and Thrace examined the situation as transformed 
      by the rupture of the government of national unity and after 
      detailed discussion by members of all the burning political questions 
                 of the day resolved as follows:            
 
                                                            
 
 
(1) It utterly condemns the civil war and hostilities between 
      Greeks and Allies. These unhappy events took place in our country 
      contrary to the desires of the SKE which did all that it could 
      to prevent them. It considers that the civil war was organized 
      solely by deadly enemies of our country and is contrary to our 
      national claims and the interests of the Greek working people 
      and to the common anti-Fascist goal of the United Nations. The 
      Party adopts and approves the resolution of the Regional Party 
      Organization of Macedonia and Thrace, which had the courage to 
      take the initiative in disapproving the civil war immediately 
      after the outbreak of hostilities, in view of the fact that