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                  #680, Nineteenth, from London             
 
                                                            
 
 
the Greek Government is going to make a statement which will 
               satisfy opinion here on that point?          
 
      Mr. Eden l I could not have dealt more fully with the matter. 
      I have explained that our Ambassador saw General Plastiras himself 
      and it is on his authority and that of General Plastiras that 
      I have made this statement which covers precisely the issues 
      which have been raised today. The position could not be clearer 
      and the Honorable Member has really no right to com-plain that 
      I am not clear. He asks us to be objective on this matter. I 
      have never heard anyone import so much prejudice into the subject 
                            of debate.                      
 
                                                            
 
 
                      (Eden speaking)                       
 
      He threw taunt after taunt at General Plastiras. Who is this 
      very wicked man who is held up like that? He was the man who 
      after the collapse of Greece in 1922 took over the government 
      pulled his country together arranged for a general election and 
      retired after the election which resulted in the return of Venizelos. 
      He was the man who was Prime Minister when Greece alone among 
      the European countries accepted refugee hundreds of thousands 
      of Armenians and helping to relieve a problem which was haunting 
      Europe. He is the man we are told now who played about with the 
      German in France. He was in France in exile and he was there 
      approached by the SS who said "come and be our Quisling 
      in Greece." He refused to