SOVIET TRIAL BALLOON IN GREECE

Chronicle (Levin), 7 January 1948, Page 5

SOVIET TRIAL BALLOON IN GREECE

* Beccived Tuesdav, 10.55 p.m. ! X E W YORK, Jan. 6. | The Greek situation is not likely to ' [>rovoke a serious elash between iAmerica and Rossia. Moscow, instead, will probably shift tlfe pressure to the \Vest and Kar Kust. This opinion was given by -Mr. ('. L. j Sul/.berger, roving eorrespondent of the Xew Yorlt Times. Moscow not onlv , does not want war but tlare not risk it, iie says. It is therefore most unlikely jtlmt Greece will over become another iSpain or tliat Greece will be coni- ! niuiiised. "The situatiop in Greece will cool at j least temporarily when IMoscow sees j that its game has been checked, " iie j adds. "This optimistic conclusion is | drawn from what I feel to Iie a weli ifotuuled assumption that America will .react strongly to the establishment of 'a government by the Greek rebel leader, [General Markos. The Markos Governjiueiit venture is a trihl balloon and exipendalde from the Soviet viewpoint, tt !is ])robable that the IMarkos GovernI ment will eventually be recognised by 'Albania, Bulgaria and probably by j Yugoslavia and Rumania but not by i Moscow — that is not until it looks like la super bet for suceess.. When1 it is }«een that the Truinan doctfine is not, necessarily limited to its original con-u-epts and that turther aid may be 'granted Greece, Markos may vanish [froui the hislorical pictuVe. One might [liredic that the Greek situation will be jstublised without wtir this year at'ter a diiiicult few months and tha,t >Soviet pressure will then be shifted to th-.- ■ VVest ttnd Kar Uast. "