-23-#669, Eighteenth, from London.             
 
      leader they have-for all is in confusion--subtracted themselves 
      from EAM leaving now only KKE the communist in uncomfortable 
              isolation clinging to their hostages.         
 
                                                            
 
 
Let me now read an extract from a despatch from our Ambassador 
      Mr. Leeper whom I have seen at close quarters in difficult and 
      dangerous circumstances and who I am bound to say has grown in 
      stature with the tests which have been applied so severely and 
      increasingly to him--a man now labouring with the utmost earnestness 
 for a peace on the broadest possible basis. This is what he
 
                                                            
 
 
"Ever since the Germans left the small but well-armed 
      Communist Party"--he wrote this in a despatch a day or two 
      ago--"--has been practising a reign of terror all over the 
      country. Nobody can estimate the number of people killed or arrested 
      before the revolt in Athens actually began but when the truth 
      can be known there will be terrible stories to tell. When the 
      fighting began in Athens the brutalities increased rapidly. Men 
      women and children were murdered here in large numbers and thousands 
      of hostages were taken dragged along the roads and many left 
      to die. Reports from Salonika show that much the same things 
                      was happening there."                 
 
                                                            
 
 
Mr. A. Bevan (ebbw Vale): on a point of order. I understand 
      that the right Hon. Gentleman was quoting from a