SUPPORT FOR MR STALIN

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25388, 10 January 1948, Page 7

SUPPORT FOR MR STALIN

BRITISH COMMUNISTS’ PLEDGE _ . . MILAN, January 8. British Communists would fight alongside the great 'enius Stalin, the Soviet Union, and the progressive democratic countries to defend peace, the secretary of the British Communist Party (Mr Harry Pollitt) told Italian Communists. He added that Mr Bevin and Mr Attlee were “depressing the British Varkers’ standards while allowing British capitalists to pile up profits.” GREEK REBELS “COMPLETE DEFEAT IN SIX MONTHS” ~ , ATHENS, Jan. 8. tt G. Livesey, head of the united States Combined Staff group in Greece, predicted that Greek Govforces would completely defeat the guerrillas within six months, said that Greece would buy from rifles and ammunition at a f°st £ 7 50.000. He would recomthe Greek Army be prowith mountain artillery and ma-chine-guns. <„L he ., British Ambassador (Sir Cliford Norton) has notified the Greek SfOyernjnent that the headquarters of , ne British troops in Greece will soon transferred to Salonika from • 11 is understood that the e f° r administrative reasons S'f, nd J hat it will not affect the ?ver-all strength of the British troops ® Greece, who total 5000 men.