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they can be checked if anybody knows them. A gentleman called
Mr. Stavirides Mr. Papanikolaou Mr. Mylonas and Mr. Dimitrakopoulos
- my Greek is not very good - those four are all the representatives
who came down from Macedonia and the manifesto to which I have
just referred was voted by all the members - that is 20 of the
Central Committee in Athens - and three of them went up to our
Ambassador and handed it over to him.
Mr. Gallagher: I still think it is a fake.
Mr. Eden: I admit that the conditions in Athens are disturbing.
I admit the difficulty of substantiating exactly what this or
that section of political opinion feels in a city which has been
through what Athens has been through but I submit to the House
that the document I have read out and the circumstances which
I have described of its presentation to us is at least a strong
prima facie case that it represents something of sub-stance in
Greek Socialist opinion.
Mr. S. O. Davies: Can the Foreign Secretary ex-plain who the
names of Professor Svolos and Professor Angelopolous are not
among the names he read out be-cause they are and have been accredit
& pound of the Greek Socialist Party?
Mr. Eden: I will say why those two names were not there. Professor
Svolos was a member of EAM but I do hot know his present whereabouts
and I cannot tell why he was not