Improvement in Greece
One piece of good news from the " still-vex'd " Balkans is that the rival sections of Greek irregulars in Greece have ended their differences and arc uniting to fight the Germans instead of fighting one another, as they have unfortunately done more than once. The stern appeals issued to both sections by Sir Henry Maitland Wilson will be remembered, and if these had little visible effect at the time there is reason to believe that British liaison officers in Greece can claim a good deal of credit for the new and welcome development. Of the E.L.A.S. bands and the E.D.E.S. under Colonel Zervas, the former, which represent a Left wing movement in politics, have been much the more active and successful against the invader, but hitherto British policy regarding Greece has not, like British policy regarding Yugoslavia, been to regard enterprise against the enemy as , the main claim to British weapons and supplies. If the reconcilia- tion between the two Greek forces is genuine and complete, as a Cairo message in last Saturday's Times a little hesitantly suggests. the difficulty of discrimination between them disappears. Eloth
should get all the assistance we can give, for as the general military operations are developing, it is of the first importance to tie down the maximum number of German divisions in the Balkans and do them the maximum of damage. The partisans under Marshal Tito in Yugoslavia are continuing to play their part in that programme with great gallantry and effect.
