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the United States when we have in this country witnessed such 
      a melancholy exhibition as that provided by some of our most 
      time-honoured and responsible journals-and other to which such 
      epithets would hardly apply. Only the solid and purposeful strength 
      of the national coalition government could have enabled us to 
      pursue unflinching and unyielding the course of policy and principle 
                on which we were and are resolved.          
 
                                                            
 
 
But our task hard as it was has been and is still being rendered 
      vastly are (more?) difficult by a spirit of gay reckless unbridled 
      partisanship which has been let loose on the Greek question and 
      has fallen upon those who have to bear the burden of government 
      in times like these. I have never been connected with any large 
      enterprise of policy about which I was more sure in mind and 
      conscience of the rectitude of our motives of the clarity of 
      our principles and of the vigour precision and success of our 
             action than what we have done in Greece.       
 
                                                            
 
 
We went to Greece for the second time in this war. We went 
      with the full approval of both our great Allies. We went on the 
      invitation of a Greek Government in which all parties even the 
      Communists were represented and as a result of a military conference 
      at which the generals of Elas