COMING DEBATE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 102, 2 May 1941, Page 7

COMING DEBATE

HELP TO GREECE

WISDOM NOT SERIOUSLY QUESTIONED

RUGBY, April 30.

Next week's two-day debate in the House of Commons will range over the whole war situation, but particular interest will attach to a discussion of the circumstances in which help was sent in response to the Greek Government's appeal. Now that the campaign is nearing the end, the results are being assessed here, and the tendency is to view the operation as guerrilla' warfare in which, in spite of his immensely superior strength, the enemy has been made to suffer severely.

The extent of this cannot entirely be measured by the number of casualties inflicted upon him, though the German methods of attack against, strongly-held positions have inevitably resulted in immense slaughter. The operation is known also to have caused great dislocation behind the enemy's lines, and throughout the Balkans the whole machinery of occupation has been thrown out of gear. During their brief period of active co-operation, the Yugoslavs contributed to this confusion, and even the German wireless did not disguise the fact that owing to their blocking of the Danube at several points it will be some months before that important channel is again open.

On political and moral grounds, the expediency "bi sending the expeditionary force to Greece is no longer seriously questioned, and it is increasingly felt that it may be found to have justified itself also by the disturbance of the German arrangements.—B.O.W.

NAZI ATTITUDE TO GREECE

(Rec. 9.40 a.m.)

ZURICH, May 1

According to official circles in Berlin, King George of the Hellenes is not recognised as a representative of Greece; he is regarded as an ordinary fugitive. ' Germany will recognise the newly-formed Greek Government provided it agrees to the fullest collaboration with Germany's war needs.— U.P.A.