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 | | IN September the Gree left-wing partisan movements EAM and ELAS, met the commander of the earmarked British force, General Scobie, and Papandreou, the exiled premier, and agreed to accept the presence of British troops in Athens. |
 | | The left-wing guerrilas began at once to quarrel with themselves and then with the British, and by 5 December ELAS and the British were fighting for control of the capital. |
 | | Arrival of the 4th Indian Division at the end of November and of the 4th British Division in mid-December swung the balance of force to the British side, while a conference chaired by Churchill on 26-27 December put forward the patriach, arch-bishop Damaskinos, as regent, with a mission of consiliation. |
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