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                  # 680, Nineteenth, from London            
 
                                                            
 
 
offers for perhaps a further delegation to go from thifs House 
      to Greece. We have nothing to hide. If Honorable Members here 
      had seen what the Prime Minister and I had Seen I am sure that 
      many of the speeches and criticisms we have heard would never 
      have been made. What I have said about the Greek Socialist Party 
      applies also to the Agrarian Party and to the Popular Democrats. 
      I believe that they too have flaked away from EAM. I cannot prove 
      it; I have not the documents to show it but I can tell the House 
      that that is our belief which the HOUSE will find justified in 
      the next few weeks. But what I do know is that representatives 
      of the Agrarian Party from Salonika have definitely broken away 
            from EAM and have taken refuge in Athens.       
 
                                                            
 
 
Mr. James Griffiths Llanelly: I gather that these defections 
      if they be so must have taken place since the Right Honorable 
      Gentleman last spoke. The last time he spoke he wanted EAM in 
                         the government.                    
 
                                                            
 
 
Mr. Eden: They have taken place since we were in Athens. Now 
      I come to the events on which I have been Challenged and the 
      position of the government in the present situation. I must remind 
      the committee that for months before we went into Greece we labored 
      to bring about unity in the Greek political parties. We got all 
      the parties together and we got a document signed at Caserta 
      agreed by the rival commanders-in-chief. We have been