Lebanon Conference

The Lebanon conference (Greek: Συνέδριο του Λιβάνου) was held on May 17–20, 1944, between representatives of the Greek government in exile, the pre-war Greek political parties, and the major Greek Resistance organizations, with the British ambassador Reginald Leeper in attendance. The conference occurred after an anti-monarchist mutiny among the Greek military the previous month. PM Georgios Papandreou's policy was to create a National Unity government ("National Contract") with the participation of the communist-dominated EAM. Finally there was a partial agreement, though tensions and disagreements remained.

Delegates

• Georgios Papandreou, Prime Minister of the Greek government in exile
• Sofoklis Venizelos, Konstantinos Rentis [el], George Exintaris [el] and Gerasimos Vassiliadis [el] of the Liberal Party
• Dimitrios Londos [el] for the People's Party
• Spyros Theotokis [el] for the National People's Party (Εθνικού Λαϊκού Κόμμα)
• Georgios Sakalis for the Progressive Party
• Alexandros Mylonas [el] for the Agrarian Party [el]
• Ioannis Sofianopoulos for the Union of the Left (Ένωση Αριστερών)
• Panagiotis Kanellopoulos for the National Unionist Party
• Filippos Dragoumis [el] as independent
• Alexandros Svolos as President of the Political Committee of National Liberation (PEEA), with Angelos Angelopoulos [el] and Nikolaos Askoutsis [el], members of PEEA
• Petros Roussos [el], Communist Party of Greece (KKE)
• Miltiadis Porfyrogenis [el] and Dimitrios Stratis [el], National Liberation Front (EAM), Greece's largest resistance organization, KKE-controlled
• Stefanos Sarafis, ELAS, armed wing of EAM
• Komninos Pyromaglou, EDES, pro-Republican resistance organization, with Lieutenant-colonel S. Metaxas and Captain I. Metaxas
• Georgios Kartalis, EKKA, pro-Republican resistance organization
• Konstantinos Ventiris, general in the army of the Greek government in exile, with Antonis Stathatos [el]

Sources

• C.M. Woodhouse, Modern Greece, Faber and Faber, 1998 ISBN 0-571-19794-9
• Spyros Linardatos (1986), Από τον εμφύλιο στη χούντα [From the civil war to the junta] (in Greek), Athens: Papazisis Editions, retrieved 11 August 2011
• Hugonnot, Jean (1946). "Les origines de la crise grecque". Politique étrangère. Vol. 11, no. 1. pp. 82–84. doi:10.3406/polit.1946.5449. Retrieved 11 August 2011.