GREEK ELECTION CAMPAIGN

Chronicle (Levin), 19 March 1946, Page 5

GREEK ELECTION CAMPAIGN

! LEFT 'WING PARTIES APPEAL FOR POSTPONEMENT Received Monday, 8.20 p.m. ATLBi^S, Marcii 16. [ The electoral campaign is gettin ^ well into its stride, ancl the lists o. ' candidates have been prepared by uix various parties whose ieaders are nov. 1 touring the country. j The Prime Minister (Mr. Sofoulis, ; said the elections set for March ox j would not be postponed uniess a , technical hitch occurrecl. , Mr. Sofoulis, inaKixig xns firsfc electxo.. speech in Saloniua, saxa nmcner ea jia. i ism nor Socialisin alone ccuid be applied , to Greece. The Lxcerals, oi whoxn xi^ was the leatier, woiuci e=ioOar«,ge prxvar,„ enterprise witliout exoluding the na tionaiisation of puixiic utxiitxes. ' Workers at the Atheus pov/er plaxiv j called off the strike and resumed vmrk ! The strike of tramwaymen ended morning after Right Wing worxers goc several trams running. Tne railwa,, strike also ended to-clay. Reuter's Moscow correspondent re ports that the magazine New Times de nounces Mr. Bevin's policy in 0,-reejv. as faixxxre to cleal with tne ' ' unbxldie^ iawlessness and terror taroughoufc th. country." Aithoagn Mr. boxoalxs .aa vised him "that armed Fascist baiid.. were masters of tne country, ' aii M.. Levin did was to suggest that order Do reestablished with the aid of the hea^ of the British poliee missxon. This wa. paradoxical advice from a man who hau consistently accusecl countries ui Eastern Europe of having poliee regimes. The Moscow radio hroadcast the text of an appeal from the ieaders- of the eight Greek Left Wing parties to the Governments of America, xvussia ancl France, calling for postponement oi the elections for two months. The appeal cmphasisecl that "murclerous terror' ' was paralysing the election : activities of the Republicans, and it re. j peated the demands for the formation : of a wide, democralic .Go.vernmant, tne. purging of State departments and reexaminaticfn of the electoral lists. runners' records would stand.