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, George Exintaris and Gerasimos Vassiliadis of the Liberal Party
• Dimitrios Londos for the People's Party
• Spyros Theotokis for the National People's Party (Εθνικού Λαϊκού Κόμμα)
• Georgios Sakalis for the Progressive Party
• Alexandros Mylonas for the Agrarian Party
• Ioannis Sofianopoulos for the Union of the Left (Ένωση Αριστερών)
• Panagiotis Kanellopoulos for the National Unionist Party
• Filippos Dragoumis as independent
• Alexandros Svolos as President of the Political Committee of National Liberation (PEEA), with Angelos Angelopoulos and Nikolaos Askoutsis, members of PEEA
• Petros Roussos, Communist Party of Greece (KKE)
• Miltiadis Porfyrogenis and Dimitrios Stratis, 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

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.