Sut,—Miss Pascoe asserts that Mr. Voigt, who visited Makronesos a
few weeks ago, paints a false picture of the camp there ; she ,then proceeds to give her version of Makronesos, after admitting that she .has never set foot on the place. Alice-could. not have done better There is nothing to hide on Makroitesos. Foreign newspaper correspondents—even a representative of the Soziet News Agency Tass—have visited it and have written of their impressions. The Times, for example, published.a long despatch from their Athens correspondent, and I have the permission of Mr. Stephen Barber, __until recently Athens correspondent of the News Chronicle, who also visited the island, to say that his impressions coincide with those Of Mr. Voigt. Miss. Pascoe also 'complains that she was not allowed by the Greek authorities to visit Makronesos, and attributes this refusal to the fact that she has been "active in work for a change of British policy towards Greece." If I may say so, euphemism has seldom been stretched to such limits. Miss Pascoe is the. very active secretary of the "League for Democracy in Greece," an _organisation engaged in Propaganda: in this country on behalf of the Greek ,Communist rebels. I think it Would be straining democracy too far, even by "League" standards, -if the agents of this organisation were turned- among the very people whom the Greek State is patiently engaged in converting to a more patriotic way bf
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