Political Nation It is true, no doubt, that most of
those w ho barbarise about 'Fascist' Greece know nothing of Greek politick, and are willing to take their 'facts' predigested. What one would scarcely think pos- sible is that people can delude themselves by any means whatever into calling a country a fascist or a police State when the political opposition, including the pro-Communist EDA, is so evi- dent and vociferous;,in the press, the Vould and even the .streets. Greek democracy is not spotless; who in their senses would expect it to be? But it is basically sound; and whatever their mutual acerbities, and whichever holds power, Karaman- lis and Papandreou, Venizelos and King Paul, all stand for political democracy and the policies which won, upon the Epirot frontier, the first great victories against the two successive totali- tarianisms which have threatened us all.
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