From The Front Is Everywhere by William R. Kintner, 1950
Since V-J Day, evidence that world Communism operates as one military machine can be culled out of almost any daily paper. When the Communists set up and armed the puppet Markos regime in Greece, the reporting of this event in the French Communist press read as if it had been copied from one document. Pierre Courtade, former editor of L�humanité, and the Athens correspondent of Ce Soir used almost identical sentences in predicting the future of the Markos regime, although the articles themselves were presumably written hundred of miles apart.28 . . .
28. Washington Post, December 26, 1947.( pages 82-3 )
Although the Communists call their revolutionary program a �mass� movement, its success has never depended upon the masses, but upon the comparatively few armed men who have fought the Communist battles. The October Revolution in 1917 set off a chain reaction of Communist revolutions in other European countries. All of them involved armed insurrections. The civil war in China, which the Communists appeared to have won in 1950, was but a continuation of an armed Communist insurrection which began in the nineteen twenties. The Communist Markos rebellion, begun in Greece in 1947, was another effort of a Communist group to seize power by armed force.
( page 214 )
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 1950.