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- initialism Ethnikos Dimokratikos Ellinikos Syndesmos,
ΕΔΕΣ , Εθνικός Δημοκρατικός Ελληνικός Σύνδεσμος (the National Republican Greek League), one of the two major resistance groups in Greece during the Axis Occupation of Greece during World War II.
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The prime minister was committed to restoring exiled King George II to the Hellenic throne and his Special Operations Executive favored the more conservative National Republican Greek League EDES and its some 6,500 guerrillas.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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For the ten years that followed, program improvements were made, guided by these themes, strengthening these aspects within established courses and developing three new courses, EDES 549 Leadership in
Evaluation: Transformation as well as Accountability - Oberg 2009
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For the ten years that followed, program improvements were made, guided by these themes, strengthening these aspects within established courses and developing three new courses, EDES 549 Leadership in
University 2009
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For the ten years that followed, program improvements were made, guided by these themes, strengthening these aspects within established courses and developing three new courses, EDES 549 Leadership in
February 2009 2009
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The prime minister was committed to restoring exiled King George II to the Hellenic throne and his Special Operations Executive favored the more conservative National Republican Greek League EDES and its some 6,500 guerrillas.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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Already in the fall of 1941 the two main wings of the Greek resistance were forming: EAM (Ethniko Apeleutherotiko Metopo — the National Liberation Front) and EDES (Ethnikos Demokratikos Metopon — the National Republican Liberation Front).
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Teams worked directly with the royalist, anticommunist EDES, as well as the Communist and Leftist EAM and its army, ELAS.3
Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs Patrick K. O'Donnell 2004
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The uneasy alliance between the EDES and EAM was also crumbling.
Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs Patrick K. O'Donnell 2004
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Teams worked directly with the royalist, anticommunist EDES, as well as the Communist and Leftist EAM and its army, ELAS.3
Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs Patrick K. O'Donnell 2004
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Under the “Plaka” agreement, SO was able temporarily to halt the blood feud between the anticommunist EDES and the Communist and leftist EAM.
Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs Patrick K. O'Donnell 2004
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