THE tides of revolution rose throughout the Balkan penin-
sula during the dark years of German occupation. It was
the natural human reaction to suppression and misery. It
was human, too, that men should dream of a new day when
they should be rid not only of the hated occupation armies
but also of abusive practices of their own prewar govern-
ments. Of such yearnings are revolutions made. In a pat-
tern so precise as to look like an overall design, a group of
purposeful Communists worked themselves into the core
of these popular movements in all the countries where the
latter arose.

We have seen how the communist revolution was fought
and won in Yugoslavia. By somewhat less violent means it
succeeded in Albania and Bulgaria. The same revolution
was fought and lost in Greece, but until Greece attains eco-
nomic and political stability there is always a good chance
that it will be fought again.

During the German occupation of the Balkans when
Marshal Josip Broz-Tito and his Partisan movement were
fighting and gaining ascendancy over all other groups in
Yugoslavia, a similar resistance movement arose in occupied
Greece. It was known as EAM--the initials standing for the
Greek phrase translated "National Liberation Front," the
same name that Tito called his movement. Like Tito's
movement, EAM drew its adherents from a wide base of the

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