-22-#669, Eighteenth, from London.             
 
                                                            
 
 
duty. We cannot disentangle ourselves from Greece immediately 
      after what has happened. We cannot do so until there can be either 
      a free vote or a guarantee of a free vote under the most stringent 
      and impartial supervision a vote of all the Greek people as to 
      what they want in the future. Whatever they decide monarchy or 
      republic let or right that shall be their law as far as we are 
      concerned. When I see all the fury expended on this subject and 
      when we are abused without one shadow of truth as far as if we 
      wanted some islands or bases from Greece as if we needed their 
      aid to keep ourselves alive I feel added anxiety for the future 
      which with all its somber and infinitely complicated problems 
                   is closing rapidly upon us.              
 
                                                            
 
 
However the "cease fire" has sounded and the rejoicing 
      of the people of Athens have once again acclaimed the liberating 
      British troops this time with an intense agonized fervor. At 
      any rate there is a region where about 1,500,000 men and women 
      can earn their daily living without fear of pillage or of being 
      killed in street fighting. Meanwhile as a result of these events 
      and also of the complete clearance of the city which proceeded 
      for several weeks with heavy fighting night and day various alphabetical 
      groups like Ske and Eld have I am informed speaking by the best 
      available leaders they