Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1947-05-09

usually started with the "colonels."
1t wasn't a too strenuous or blood
thirsty affair. A few colonies got to-
gether. They marched on the palace
or the war department or the state
department., had a few polite words,
put their own cabinet in, shot off a
few shots which damaged at most a
few more or less innocent but Curl
GUS bystanders and that was that.
But-there came change.
The revolution which followed the
liberation" of the Greeks from
Nazi occupation was quite differ
ent matter. 1t didn't come from the
top and work down. It came from
the bottom and worked up.
The Allies had armed the "resist-
ance," the Greek patriots who
fought the Germans. But while the
Allies poured in such material aid
as was possible, just as they helped
Tito in Yugoslavia, the Russians
were pouring in something else.
Propaganda. The Allies learned, too
late, the true physiognomy of the
revolution which opposed the gov
eminent. The liberation was
a revolt engineered and carried on
by the enlisted men, not the high
officers. And its leaders were COM
munist-indoctrinated.
The majority of the rebelling
Greeks were not Communists. They
were not fighting to establish a COM
munist regime, but to overthrow an
autocratic junta. But they were Or
gained and directed by Moscow
trained leaders.
Today there is a revolution" in
Greece. The majority of the So
called "guerrillas" are not Commu-
nists. They are fighting to establish
(they think) a liberal Greek govern
ment. But all of their leaders are
Communists. And the rank and file
are being carefully and thoroughly
indoctrinated in communism. They
raid, they fight, they eat off the
land, they use the weapons provided
by the Allies. But out of each such
fighting and eating day they take
time out to 60 to school.
These schools are conducted
regularly from 10 to IL and from
4 to 6 unless battle or so inter-
ruptS. In these schools the good
Greek patriots are being thor
oughly instructed in the philOsO-
ply of Karl Marx, Nick Lenin.
and Joe Stain. This is Of rec
ord. 1t is fact, not fancy. Mos
cow would (unofficially, of
course), probably boast Of it
rather than deny it.
Those who graduate with sufficient
communistic "honors" are appoint
ed political commissars and at
tached to each guerrilla unit.
1t is easy to imagine what would
happen if these forces took over the
government.
Meanwhile, there is no objection
on the part of the agents of Moscow
to have the Greeks set up "coali-
ton" governments-they have had
nearly a dozen, all of which failed
because the leaders of the various
parties represented could not CO.
operate.
The failure of these governments,
the revolt, dissension, unrest, ter
rible economic conditions, all con-
tribute to that great ally of commu-
nism-chaos.
Conditions. That is the answer.
The whole of the American policy of
laid to Greece and Turkey" is in
tended to change present condi-
tons. To change them the experts
tell us we must:
l. Stop the warfare, assure per-
sonal security to the people.
2. Feed them.
3. Restore their normal eco
nomic life, and as result, their
normal social life.
Then see that they are let alone
to take care of themselves. Commu-
nism then will die of malnutrition.
Basement Structures
Serue as Vet Homes
(Tbis is the second in series of storie,
sbo,ping boV american ingenuity belbed
solve Americas broblem-tbe G.I. No.
beadaebe-boasing)
children in Orphanage Because
of Housing Shortage"-that was the
headline on a story in the st. Cloud,
Mimi. Times-a story that went on