6 Ibid., Chapter 3, 99–107; Hondros, 246
7 Gerolymatos (Red), 105; Dekemriana 1944 (flv) (Television production). tvxs (Reporters Without Frontiers), Stelios Kouloglou. 5/12/2006; retrieved 12/26/2011
8 Evert interview, Akropolis, 12/12/1958
9 Death toll in dispute. From 16 per Close, Greek Civil War, 85, to 28 dead on 3 December and 100 dead on 4 December. Panourgia, 65–9 https://dangerouscitizens.columbia.edu/1944–1945/amputated-bodies-broken/all/index.html; see Gerolymatos https://www.thenationalherald.com/33375/athens-deadly-december-1944/
10 December 5, 1944 telegram to Gen. Scobie. Churchill, The Second World War: The Tide of Victory Vol. 11, 256–258
11 Churchill, Triumph and Tragedy, Vol. 6, 291
12 Gerolymatos (Red), 170
13 Drew Pearson, American syndicated columnist, criticized Churchill, linking his behavior to that of Nazi collaborators. Pearson’s sensitivity to Greek democracy would continue for decades, through his opposition to the military junta in 1967. Gerolymatos (Red), 139–41; Holden 166–67; https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.185579/2015.185579.The-Royal-House-Of-Greece_djvu.txt; Clogg, (“Cousins”), op. cit., Jenkins, 770
14 Clogg (Concise), 134. https://medium.com/@AndreasXenachis/standing-up-to-the-nazis-even-when-faced-with-the-noose-29cbe34f2d1d
15 12,000 to 17,000 casualties http://www.mixanitouxronou.gr/dekemvriana-ston-emfilio-tis-athinas-se-33-imeres-i-nekri-itan-perissoteri-apo-ekinous-tou-ellinoitalikou-polemou/
16 Scholars have debated for decades the so-called rounds of the Greek Civil War, with traditionalists viewing the second round beginning in December 1944 and revisionists asserting that the left “never had any intention of taking power by force,” but were simply responding to “needless provocations from British imperialists and their local collaborators.” A post-revisionist school views the December phase as a combination of coup, civil war, and revolution. Delis (The British Intervention) 211–237, 212
5: A TUBERCULAR EDUCATION
1 FRUS, 1945, Vol. 8, 868.00/3–645, Athens, 2/12/1945; G. Mavrogordatos, “The 1946 Election and Plebiscite: Prelude to Civil War,” in J. O. Iatrides (ed.), Greece in the 1940s, 181–95
2 Close (Origins), 173; G. Mavrogordatos, “The 1946 Election and Plebiscite: Prelude to Civil War,” in J. O. Iatrides (ed.), Greece in the 1940s, 181–95; Clogg (Parties), 18
3 “What the Germans Did to Greece,” LIFE, 11/27/1944 http://www.ww2wrecks.com/portfolio/the-nazi-occupation-of-greece-1941-44-an-endless-list-of-crimes-atrocities-and-bloodbaths/
4 Paul Porter Economic Report, April 1947 in Tsoucalas, 98
5 McDougall, 112; Evangelos Louizos, email to JHB, 10/14/2013
6 Lincoln MacVeagh, “Memoirs” in McCullough, 540
7 McCullough, 547–8
8 Truman Doctrine, 1–5
9 MacNeill, 86
10 Joes, 40
11 See Vlanton; Keeley (Salonica Bay); Marton; MacPherson, 277–81; Sperber, 302–14, 369; Steel, 487; William Burr (ed.). “The George Polk Case” https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB226/index.htm; https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2013/10/27/240768937/an-americans-death-still-a-greek-mystery-65-years-later; EPD later learned more Polk details from George Seldes not included in Seldes autobiography, Witness to a Century, New York: Ballantine Books, 1987, 378-81
12 Sperber, quoting Polk, 311
13 Djilas, 181–3
14 Rossos (“Incompatible Allies”), 42–76
15 J. C. Murray. “The Anti-Bandit War: Part I.” January 1954: 38 Marine Corps Gazette, 18, in Wittner (American Intervention), 243, 251, and n49; A. C. Sedgwick, “Greek Army Opens Grammos Assault: Advance to Albanian Border Is Made on North in Drive in Last Main Rebel Zone.” NYT, 8/26/1949
16 Neer, Napalm, 1, 15; To Vima, 6/29/2003
6: THE YOUNG JOURNALIST
1 Kapsis, 144–6
2 John Rigas, interview, 6/1/2012
3 At the time EPD joined Kathimerini, journalism was in practice largely a closed profession, rooted in a literary tradition, whose members were part of a “self-educated elite who believed that one did not need any special education or training to become a journalist.” “The conception of ‘talent’ or ‘journalists are born and not made’ was the dominant view, therefore no school was needed.” Skamnakis, 136–7
4 Kapsis, op. cit., 51–2
5 Sid Goldberg, head of North American News Alliance, wrote that EPD became NANA’s “chief Mediterranean correspondent” in August 1950. Letter, 11/22/1967. Later EPD became one of six masthead “foreign correspondents” to Technology Week: Including Missiles and Rockets.
6 Gold Cross of St. Mark: “Decoration of Greek Newspaperman,” Kathimerini, 10/5/1950; “Patriarch of Alexandria Honors Distinguished Wartime Hero,” Empros, 10/5/50; “Decoration,” Eleftheria, 10/6/1950; Acropolis, 10/5/1950; details of EPD awards in letter from Greek Embassy in United States to Congressman Les Aspin, 12/18/1980
7 The USAF Attaché sent a letter congratulating him on his “exceptional bravery,” adding he was “honored in being…present.” Leigh Wade to EPD, 3/11/1950
8 Less than a month after EDP’s first award ceremony, OAG leader John Bobotinos wrote to Peurifoy to condemn Greek police from the Ministry of Coordination who, presumably at the direction of the US Embassy, interrogated OAG members about EPD’s “reliability.” Wrote Bobotinos: “…our organization guarantees Mr. Demetrakopoulos’ honesty and reliability; actually he was one of the most energetic and honest of our men during the occupation and served our common cause without personal benefice.” Bobotinos to Peurifoy, 12/6/1950
9 Flora Lewis, “Ambassador Extraordinary: John Peurifoy,” NYT, 7/18/1954; “Thailand. Smilin’ Jack,” TIME, 8/22/1955
10 https://www.state.gov/documents/organization/176702.pdf, The ‘M’ Unit, 128; Senate Appropriations Subcommittee Hearings on Departments of State, Justice, Commerce, and the Judiciary Appropriations for 1951, 1950, 603; Johnson (Lavender), 70–71; “The Administration. Housecleaning,” TIME, 4/7/1952
11 Koliopoulos and Veremis, 296
