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chief, General Van Fleet, evidently aimed to crush
the guerillas by a quick offensive. It was said that
he hoped to be able to accomplish this during the
late summer or autumn of this year.
It is high time that anarchy be ended.
Destitution, starvation and illnesses speak a clear
language. For years the resources of the country as
well as the very extensive help given by foreign .
countries have been swallowed up by the civil war.
”Seldom have our people, during their long history,
been confronted by such great danger as they are
now”, said the legal government’s Prime Minister
in the spring of 1948.
The Swedish Red Cross had indicated that they
would finance the construction of a children’s home
in Patras on the northwest Peloponnese. Because of
chaotic conditions, an enormuos amount of Greek
children have become orphans, badly in need of care.
This was the reason for my visit to Greece and I had
thorough discussions regarding this question with
a Greek architect and a representative of the
American Mission. The plans drawn up by the architect
would enable the hospital to take care of 120
children to start with. At a small additional expense,
however, the capacity could be increased to two
hundred,
We went to Patras the day after our arrival in
Athens. We flew over cloud banked mountain
ranges to a military air field thirty kilometers south
of the town and continued by car through the
fertile valleys. A military escort arnied with machine
guns and automatic pistols was assigned to protect
us. One of the mountain regions through which we
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