-33-#669, Eighteenth, from London. Mr. Bevan: This is of the utmost importance. The Right Hon. Gentleman may have heard that statement are being made to the effect that the Government are already weeding out from the administration in Athens any of those persons who recently sympathized with EAM. I do not say it is true because I do not know what the Right Hon. Gentleman knows. Would he make it quite certain that British arms will not be used to sustain a government, which does not honor in full the law, and the pledge he has now given to the House? The Prime Minister: I think that there is a great difference between putting people to death for the crime of rebellion or bringing them to penal processes and making sure that your government departments are not full of people who are working for the other side. I am dealing with the whole question of amnesty which relates to the penal processes of law such as imprisonment or sentences of death and an amnesty certainly does not mean that persons who are not trusted by the government of the day will immediately be made Cabinet Ministers or that employees that were found to have left their posts in the crisis and taken part in the fighting on the opposite side to the government of the day should be reinstated |