-21-#669, Eighteenth, from London.             
 
                                                            
 
 
The assailants have fled; Attica is free; a truce has been 
      signed giving a much larger area of peace and order around Athens 
      and the Piraeus which are the heart of Greece and which have 
      always been the dominant center of the life of Greece. More than 
      one quarter of the entire population lives there and in the region 
      now liberated. I have not the slightest doubt that in the opinions 
      they expressed and in the views they take they represent at least 
      four-fifths of the whole Greek nation if it could express its 
      view with conditions of peace and normal tranquility. Fighting 
      has ceased now except for skirmishes with parties of ELAS troops 
      who probably have not yet heard the news in this primitive country. 
      Now the Greek people can talk things over as they choose under 
      the guidance of Archbishop Damaskinos who is also ready to receive 
      and has invited the representatives of EAM or what is left of 
   EAM in the political structure and ELAS to come to meet h
 
                                                            
 
 
What do we seek in Greece? Do we want anything from Greece? 
      What part do they play in our so-called power politics? How much 
      does it matter to us from a national point of view what form 
      their government takes? I repeat: we want nothing from Greece 
      but her friendship and to earn that and deserve that we have 
      to do our Duty.