14- #669, Eighteenth, from London.             
 
                                                            
 
 
For the last two years played very little part against the 
      Germans. Now I really cannot argue with my Hon. Friend. No doubt 
      he and some of those who hold his views will have an opportunity 
      of extolling their glorious deeds. I personally am not prepared 
      to pay them anything like the tributes which are paid to the 
      heroic French or Belgian Maquis or to the men in Italy who are 
      in the mountains fighting their desperate battle. It seems to 
      me they took aid from us with their eyes on more important local 
             matters after the general war was over.        
 
                                                            
 
 
Every single appointment was wrangled over and when the fierce 
      mountaineers had got well into the city and joined up with their 
      confederates inside them all those seven ministers of the government 
      resigned like clockwork except one whom I told the house about 
      before who was a little late but by running very hard under the 
      threat of death managed to keep his appointment. So far the Allies 
      seemed very content with what had happened in Greece. Our minds 
      rested upon its liberation from the Germans. We expected a certain 
      amount of local ebullition while matters readjusted themselves 
      and food could come in. After all there were other things going 
      on at the same time. We rested on the pleasure which our early 
      reception in Athens