THAT GREECE SPOT

Evening Star, Issue 25577, 1 September 1945, Page 10

THAT GREECE SPOT

[Written by " X.Y.," for the ' Evening Star.'] " Britain must dear out of Greece and give the Greek people a chance to settle their domestic affairs," said Mr Zachiarides, the Communist leader. " Civil war will follow. The situation in this way would be settled and in two months everything will be 0.K." —-Cable item. Pack up your baggage and be gone, O Britons, from our shore; For. now the Great Big War is done We want a little War. The guns will pop From every shop, In every street and square j And folk will fall— But, after all, That's quite our own affair. For Greece must have a Government; It's her express desire. Her mode of popular consent Is bomb and rifle-lire. This method knocks The ballot box To tiny smithereens. No stodgy polls Content the souls Of bellicose Hellenes. The Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece^—! O Britons, take to flight, And leave these happy Isles in peace To stage their private fight; To hang and shoot And burn and loot— Until the valiant band Who still contrive To stay alive Will rule the smiling land. Lives there a man with mind so queer As his, who-idly dotes On polling booth and scrutineer And counting secret votes? O give-us, do, . . A month or two To try the other way.. j I'll guarantee That things will be Decidedly O.K.