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FOR SECRET
ENCLOSURE "A"
claims
given to guer
THE GREEK SITUATION
by
for
Cur-
INTRODUCTION
General. Today Greece is virtually in a state of civil war.
Left wing elements, opposed to the rightist government and to the mon-
archist regime, and receiving clandestine aid from the Soviet-satellite
states of Yugoslavia, Albania, and Bulgaria, are carrying out intensive
guerrilla operations, especially in the border areas. The guerrilla
o
activities have reached such proportions that the Greek army finds it
W
difficult to suppress them. This situation marks the culmination of
long-standing differences between the various political factions of the
left and right which became violent during the period of Axis occupation
and have not been resolved since the liberation.
Early evidence of the international aspect of the Greek
troubles was supplied by local clashes along the Albanian border which
began in March 1945. In August 1946 the Ukrainian delegate protested
to the Security Council in behalf of Albania (not a member of the UN)
against alleged Greek violations of the border. The USSR, however,
vetoed the suggestion that a commission be sent to investigate border
difficulties.
Following the rightist victory in the Greek arliamentary elec-
tions of 31 March 1946, in which the extreme leftist elements did not
vote, guerrilla activities in Northern Greece began to assume serious
proportions. They increased in violence after the plebiscite of 1 Sep-
tember 1946, which recalled King George II to Greece. Insisting that
the troubles were largely inspired from outside, Constantin Tsaldaris,
Premier and Minister for Foreign Affairs, finally decided to go to New
York and complain to the Security Council of foreign interference in
Greek internal affairs.
Greece and the UN. On 3 December the Greek appeal was pre-
sented in a letter to the Secretary General of the United Nations. The
letter was accompanied by a memorandum containing details of incidents
with supporting photographs. It requested the Security Council to in-
vestigate a situation "which is leading to friction between Greece and
her neighbors, by reason of the fact that the latter are lending their
support to the violent guerrilla warfare now being waged in northern
Greece against public order and the territorial integrity" of Greece.
the
a
makeshi
in
Apr.li
See map accompanying this report.
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