LIBERTY IN GREECE
[7'o the Editor of Tim SPECTATOR.]
SIR,—I think the following extracts from a correspondent in Greece may interest your readers as supporting the extremely interesting article in your issue of October 9th by Mr. F.
Elwyn Jones. It is dated August 31st, and is translated from the French of the original.
" Often the mothers and the women cannot learn what is the fate of their sons or husbands once they have been arrested. In vain they search the police stations in the daytime : they are driven away, terrorised, or told that nothing is known. "Why this silence ? What crimes does it hide ?
"The islands are full. At Anaphi there are 200 victims. The water supply, one hour's distance from the village, is not sufficient. There are no houses to shelter them : there is nothing to eat. The boats come every fortnight at the most. Without trees, without a patch of green, under a burning sun. Thousands of provocations are introduced by the police : for instance, it is forbidden to bathe in the sea, or to visit one another . . .
"Books are burned in the public squares, and foreign fascists are imitated, down to the purgatives that suspected people are forced to swallow . . .
"This is what we know, but the unknown, that which goes on in the dark, is most to be feared. ; "Do not reply to this."
- All those who are interested in the unhappy fate of personal liberty in Greece will be grateful to you for publishing the article.
There are very close ties binding the British people to the Greeks, and surely some expression of our bitter dis- • appointment, that from the cradle of European civilisation such distortion of it is taking place, might be of service, not only to those individuals suffering there, but to the whole cause of peace and freedom.—Yours faithfully,
44 Upper Park Road, N.W. 3. EDITH M. PX-E.
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