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The campaign in northern Greece. as I have said. is a campaign of brutal aggression and a crime against decency and humanity in which arson. pillage. and murder are no exceptions to the general rule. The gentleman from Texas and I. during our trip through northern Greece last fall. arrived in a village the morning after a family of five had had their throats cut because the father and husband of that family had made a speech in favor of the Greek Government. From northern Greece there have fled southward to towns and villages garrisoned by the Greek National Army. almost a half million terrified refugeesnot driven off land which they worked as serfs and which belonged to someone elseas the gentleman from New York would have you believebut off their own soil and out of their own homes. because the percentage of home ownership In Greece is higher than it Is ih any other civilized nation In the world. Seventytwo percent of the Greek people live on and work their own land.