Queen's Appeal For Return Of Children
ATHENS, Dec. 29. Queen Frederika last night appealed on behalf of the Greek Church and State, for the repatriatiOn of 28,000 Greek children abducted by the Communist rebels and now detained in Russian satellite countries. She said: "I ask you to help me to arouse the conscience of the civilised. world. I appeal to you not as a Queen but as a simple mother who goes on her knees to beg for her children who are in danger." Later the Queen made a wireless broadcast on -the same theme to Britain and the United States. "Too long has the civilised world remained silent. Silence in face of such an outrage can only add to the crime itself and turn us all into culprits," she said. The Queen added that if it was not thought desirable on anybody's part to send those Greek children back to " monarcho - f ascist " Greece, let them at least be delivered from the slavery of Communist life and indoctrination and be sent to neutral countries such as Switzerland, Finland and Sweden, there to be dealt with by the International Red Cross.
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Chronicle (Levin), 30 December 1949, Page 5
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