GREEK ARMY’S TACTICS

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25391, 14 January 1948, Page 7

GREEK ARMY’S TACTICS

AMERICAN COMPLAINT CONFERENCE TO BE HELD IN ATHENS (N.ZJP.A. —Reuter—Copyright) 8 p.m.) LONDON, January 13. The Greek Foreign Minister (Mr Tsaldans) said that members of the Greek Government and the American economic mission would confer to-day about a complaint by the head of the mission (Mr Dwight Griswold) that the War Minister (Mr Stratos) had ordered key points to be fortified and had engaged the National Guard without Mr Griswold’s approval,” says the Athens correspondent of the Associated Press. The “Daily Telegraph’s” correspondent m Athens says: “There have been differences between the Greek Government and army and the British and American advisers about the weapons and tactics needed against the rebels, lhe Government in the last year has relied too much on formal methods of warfare. The Army does not lack equipment. It needs to evolve tactics r?Has inn i n £ es t r oying the guer“A step in the right direction has taken by the development of British-type commandos. The Greek nation must discover a dynamism to counter the threat of Communism comparable with that shown against the Italian invaders in 1940. Too many politicians in Athens are intent on sparring for office.”