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Communist .Indoctrination of Greek Kids Has Compounded Major Hellenic Tragedy EDITOR'S NOTE: The cold war is the stage o modern Creek tragedy. Communist tuitions have been pumpinp Red propaganda or 7 years into about 28,000 Creek children abducted during the Greek civil war. Now the Reds are suddenly eager to return the hostages. Why? William L. Ryan has sought the answer in a survey of political, economic and mili tary implications on the spot. " This is the first oj 3 dispatches. By WILLIAM L. RYAN Of Th Associated Prew Y KASTORIA, Greece WV-A spe cial train from Communist Bul garia came to a halt on the Greek side of the frontier. A Greek in his trly 20s leaped from the train and.i falling to his knees, kissed the Greek earth he had not seen for 7 years. The young man wept as he pro claimed his joy at deliverance. He had been 1 of about 28,000 Greek children abducted by the Communists, along with thous ands of adults, during the Greek Civil War of 1947-49. Two weeks after his repatria tion, Greek security police ar rested this same young man. He was, they said, a trained' Com munist spy. WHOLESALE KIDNAPING The young man was more than that. He was an example of how communism sets about to capture a generation. He was part of a compounded tragedy which has become a major problem for Greece and a matter of concern . fez Ml 'fir- ' (AP Wlrephoto) REUNION IN SALONIKA A young girl is kissed ten derly by a uniformed man during reunion of Greek re patriates from Romania at Salonika in Greece in Oc tober last year. Young miss is one of many. Greek child ren who have been indoctrinated in Red metropolitan centers behind the Iron Curtain on the Continent and re patriated to their homeland. for Greece's friends, .including the United States. This area, within sight of the towering wild mountains which mark the border of Communist Albania, was one of the hardest hit by a crime which shocked the civilized world the wholesale kidnaping of Greek children. - Now the Communists seem sud denly eager to return thousands of those forced across the border and possibly some of the many who went willingly as the fam ilies of Red guerrilla fighters. Many Greeks are asking- Why? Why, at this moment, after all these years and all the futile pleas of Greece before worfd opinion? Up to now 3,700 have been re-, patriated in this way, but: Of the 3,700 repatriates, 60 per cent are women, About 1,300 are over 60 and an equal number are children, most of them born across the border. Only 1,100 are in the 20-to 60 age group. Those coming back at the moment in clude many who will be burdens to their communities. 1 Attached to their return is a condition that they must go to the villages or areas of their origin. Even these few created prob lems for Greece. The Commu nists seemed fully aware of that. Poland suddenly offered to re patriate 6,000 in the dead of win ter, when it would be most diffi cult to accommedate them. The number was too great for the Greeks to handle in one batch. They asked that it be scaled down to 2,000 and the time ad vanced to spring.' STRONG RUMOR There is now a strong rumor that the Communists replied with an offer raising the number to 11,000, to be moved in a sin gle batch at once. It seemed an effort to embarrass the Greeks. Security screening alone is a long and arduous task, taxing Greek facilities to the utmost. There might not be dangerous elements among the first batches. Repatriates here angrily deny that any of their number has any use for communism. But Greek officials are frankly wor ried about those to come the children schooled for 7 years in a Communist vacuum. Interrogation has shown that many of the children, grown to adulthood in isolation from their parents, have undergone the most thorough of indoctrination courses. Many had special treat ment in special schools under the guidance of the Greek Com munist party, now based largely abroad in the satellite countries. They had better treatment in many cases than dijj the children oi inc native Romanians, i oies, Hungarians or Czechs. In Romania, a big Bucharest building and 2 big villas were set aside for Greek children They were kept to themselves under Greek Communist teach ers. Village children from birth in a hard mountain country, they had never seen a large European city. Budapest, Prague and Buch arest were proud old cities long before the Communists came along. Children would be im pressed. Security officials say many who left Greece as children now are indoctrinated Communists who would represent a new and serious nucleus for the outlawed Greek Communist party. AN ILLUSTRATION There was an illustration: Furtively, 2 teen-age boys agreed to slash their fingers. They smeared the spurting blood on letters they were writ ing to their parents, still cap tive in a Communist country. The boys, long separated from their parents, had recently been repat riated from Romania. On the blood-smeared sheets of paper they wrote: "This will show you how the monarcho-Kascists torture those who return here They wrote that they were cruelly beaten in Greece and that the blood showed it. Since the boys, among the rela tive few who could be placed in a school for rehabilitation, wcer un der observation at the time, the letter was read and stopped. This story was told to me by a representative of the Queen's, Fund, a charitable organization now devoting much of its con siderable energy to the problem of the repatriated children. Greece is salvaging some of them. But it is a slow and pain ful process. Next: The making of a young Communist. Snow Made Progenitors Stand Erect SAN FRANCISCO wv-Some ex periments with chimpanzees have convinced a Virginia medical sci entist that snow played a part in the development of man from apelike ancestors. BEAVER! PORTLAND, Me. im Crewmen of the Coast Guard cutter Cook Inlet found a way to liven up a recent 30-day weather patrol in the North Atlantic. They held a beard-growing contest. The experiments involve a loosely constructed theory that snow and cold made man's an cestors uncomfortable, caused them to stand upright to escape the chilling wetness; that the up right position made their adrenal glands w'ork harder because of the unnatural stress involved, and that the erect position resulted in an increased demand by the brain for blood. With the in creased blood supply the brain developed and the creature be came the upright progenitor of man. This hypothesis was presented to the Federated American Soci eties for Experimental Biology Wednesday by Dr. Sydney W. 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