Volume 16, Number 11 · June 17, 1971
Greece's Other History
By L.S. Stavrianos
Les Kapetanios: La guerre civile grecque 1943-1949
by Dominique Eudes
Fayard (Paris), 493 pp., 30 Fr.
Democracy at Gunpoint: the Greek Front
by Andreas Papandreou
Doubleday, 365 pp., $7.95
Man's Freedom
by Andreas Papandreou
Carnegie-Mellon (distributed by Columbia University Press), 72 pp., $4.00
Nightmare in Athens
by Margaret Papandreou
Prentice-Hall, 390 pp., $8.95
Vérité sur la Grèce
by Anonymous
La Cité (Lausanne), 252 pp., 21 Fr.
Greece: February 1971 Relations, United States Senate
A Staff Report Prepared for the Use of the Committee on Foreign
U.S. Government Printing Office, 16 pp.
Imagine what would be the common belief today if General Westmoreland had won the war in Vietnam several years ago. Ho Chi Minh would be remembered as a bloodthirsty communist traitor, while Emperor Bao Dai, Diem, Ky, and Thieu would be hailed as the saviors of their country. We would know nothing of My Lai, and we would have forgotten about napalm, defoliants, 'free fire zones,' and mass 'relocation' of peasants. Instead we would be treated to tales (which ultimately we would accept as the full story) of wholesale atrocities in POW camps and of mass graves which would be exposed and publicized, as they were when the My Lai story first broke.
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