SHARP NOTES
GREECE AND SOVIET REPRESENTATIVE
RUSSIA EXPECTED TO RECALL AMBASSADOR* (Rec. 11.32 a.m.) ATHENS, Aug. 27. Greek Government Pressmen report from Paris that the "recall, olf the Soviet Ambassador in Athens ; RearAdmiral Constantin Rodionov, is likely to follow the recall of the Yugoslav Minister. Two Royalist newspapers in Athens have been brought before a tribunal following Rodionov’s complaint about the anti-Soviet attitude of the Greek Press. Rodionov sent a strong Note to the Greek Foreign Ministry protesting against attacks on Soviet policy and requesting that the Ministry should instruct the Press to desist. The Greek Government replied that the. Greek Press was completely free to express whatever views it wished, although the Government did not assor ciate itself with such comment. A Government spokesman, in an open letter, demanded that Rodionov cease encouraging the band of murderers who constitute a small minority of the Greek people.
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Evening Star, Issue 25882, 28 August 1946, Page 7
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