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 | | Yet, within less that three months the legitimacy of the government of national unity was to face a fierce challenge in the communist insurgency of December 1944; Papandreou was ousted from the premiership; and King George was forced to agree at last to the creation of the regency that he had so long resisted. |
 | | Amid charges and counter-charges of lack of good faith and in a climate of mounting tension, the left-wing ministers resigned from the government on 2 December and EAM called a general strike for 4 December, to be preceded by a mass demonstration in Syntagma Square, in the center of Athens, on Sunday 3 December. |
 | | The mistakes and miscalculations of those involved, the left-wingers, the national government, and the British, all contributed to the creation of a situation that was moving rapidly and seemingly inexorably towards a tragic climax. |
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