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generals of Elas and of Eden were equally present. We came 
      with good gifts in our hands stability and assistance to the 
      all-party Greek Government who were formed and had to face the 
      confusion left by the flight of the Germans. We brought food 
      clothing and supplies. We came with a small force of troops. 
      We took up our positions from no military point of view scattering 
      and spreading our troops in a number of places on the coast and 
      at small points inland where we hoped to be able to pour in the 
      largest numbers of supplies as quickly as possible to a very 
      hungry people. We were received with flowers and cheers and other 
      expressions of rapture and we British the wicked British - so 
      denounced by the American correspondents whose names have no 
      doubt been noted by the House and so hounded by some of our own 
      - busied themselves in the distribution of supplies throughout 
        those parts of the country to which we had access.  
 
                                                            
 
 
We had made Greece safe for UNRRA before the outbreak took 
      place. Meanwhile for a period of six weeks or so the Greek Government 
      representative of all parties were distracted by internal divisions 
      and street demonstrations and all the time the Communist-directed 
      forces were drawing down from the north and infiltrating into 
      the city of Athens in which they had also a