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                  #680, Nineteenth, from London             
 
                                                            
 
 
truce when every effort was being made to try to get agreement 
      the ELAS representatives said that they could not release their 
      hostages because they could not answer for the actions of the 
             EAM police who had taken those hostages.       
 
                                                            
 
 
Mr. Driberg: While the Right Honorable Gentleman is dealing 
      with these very crucial dates will he explain about M. Papandreou's 
      broadcast of 27th November when he denounced sections of the 
                  right for fomenting civil war?            
 
                                                            
 
 
Mr. Eden: I cannot deal with his broadcast. I do not carry 
      all these matters in my mind. I have tried to give a fair account 
      of what happened and I believe it is approximately a just one. 
                                                            
 
      Sr R. Aeland: Will the Right Honorable Genteel man confirm the 
      Scobie's leaflet? There is no reference in it to the agreement 
                 or to the steps that were taken.           
 
                                                            
 
 
Mr. Eden: General Scobie's broadcast was made on the afternoon 
      of 1st December. (Honorable Members: "The Leaflet.") 
      The leaflet and the broadcast were the same. They stated desire 
      is to maintain law and order and to assist in the distribution 
      of relief and nothing in that leaflet could possibly have been 
      construed as to inflame passion but it was a warning that if 
      it came to force we should do our best to maintain law and order. 
      I do not know what else a general in that position would be supposed 
                             to say.                        
 
      Mr. Cocks: