ABSTRACT
During the 1940s and early 1950s, anti-Western and, more precisely, anti-British feeling in Greece was largely limited to the extreme Left, the supporters of the outlawed Communist Party and its legal substitute after 1951, EDA.1 For the KKE and its wartime resistance front, EAM, the British had proved the main obstacle to their attempt to overpower their domestic rivals and dominate the political scene after the occupation was over. Subsequently, the British intervened against the communist attempt to seize control of Athens in December 1944, and then continued to assist the Greek governments to withstand the pressure from the Left. As the Civil War escalated, leftist hostility primarily turned against the United States which, following the Truman Doctrine in March 1947, took over the burden of preventing a communist take-over in Greece and elsewhere.
