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REEKS SING: “ENGLISH ~~ OFROM OUR LAND” By June“€annarn (Ed. Note: June Cannan trarefled with her husband, the Reuters earrespondent in Greece inta the Greek mountains io interciew the Partisens.) ~ We heard through the window the sound of a great ban of men singing as they came down the mountain. The tit of their song was Englishmen, Go From Our Land. We gree ed the commanders, then they and*————+-—— ea many men as possigte crowded to the cuayor's rotn to witness the first ‘press confecence” these Paitisans hed ever held. Tirey gave us a comuani: ds scribing tne recent Sera tate, and an open Ietter addressed to the Greek arm, the Greek government, thc America: and Brifisn amdassa- dors, and the Greek netsiraptrs, e.ich called for an tu'ernationa‘| eulamissia.s Lo visit them--by para-} ehite ig necessary. { The name of their acs is len, uively, “The Democra‘{: Army 6, reece.” Civilian units recruited from thie. yilages are called ‘Democratic Armed Groups of the Terrorized.” They will fieht until the British Jeave the country, umil a demo- cratic government is established. until war criminals and collabo- rators are punished and cleaned out of the government, until a political amnesty is declared. They said they ere part of a “democratic front’ which necepted members of any democratic politl-. eal party who opposed the rightest_ Mne-party government. Nikitas, = Macedonian, a shy, ' good-natured man with a large mustache told us he was acting commander of the Kaimakchalan section of the joint Paikon-Kaim- akchalan command, named for the two mountain strongholds. t Kalta, a Greek, represented ie| gupreme joint conimander of the! aren Both had been with EL! guri€g the war. Kalfa told us thy gevegh members of nis family fg clucdfg his ficncre had been por to the islands of the Aegc BUAPRZ IAT2/0 -- Fe ‘ next day we took pictutes of mén and noticed that t#ey all bried to be in some kind of ~ forn—mostly British clothing either geht to them during the war when they were the allies of Britain, or taken from the British-equinped Greek army recently. Many of the men Wore bad ‘ghoes and insufficient clothiny te — feo: the winter. pevien’ ered ao~ Rina dbadn amiels , @tewes, see tere Tre ssemcdl dauniiess in spite of their handi- | caps. laughed heartily as th | of their exploits anid 7 | jfrightened the Greek army foi | were of their unexpected raids. They told us that for five years they had suffered such hardships ‘and disappointment that nothing could stop them now—they had no further terrors to face, no new de-: privations to undergo. i The men we talked to were not “handits” terrorizing the coua- tryside for personal gain or for sheer spite; they were an ideal- istic armed force disciplined, de-~ termined, steadiiy growing in’ numbers. They told us of new recrudis after ; each battle botb from the villagers and from Greek Army deserters. . The question of how many armed ‘fighteis there are in all of Greece brings answers from a few nuns dred to tenes of thousands, There is no answer at the mo- ment except that of our young n ie, eventually reveal In self as a Partisan in “civvi «! said, ‘We are just ‘foik,” re are & lot of ‘folk’. Pe ee ee ane a oy - eit FATHER _Drsnimsun —%. .. CHOLEVAS, oe Athens, whe wrote te Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, honor- ary chairman of American Relicl _ for Greek Democracy, “We hare fought tor the liberation and now we are persecuted.” Father De-. metrics asked for help to the starving Greek people, His Ictier wis released by Fichard Yaffe, | eNairman of a dinner the eommil- ’ tde is sponsoring Feb, 74 at t maodore Hotel to cpem its 19 | campaign for $1,200,066, L re a re ~ DAILY WORKER ee ee Date %- 7- «7 Clipped at the Seat of Government.) } » | + vive 109 -12. -a53-A a