OBSERVATIONS ON THE 1946 ELECTIONS IN GREECE.

The article presents observations on elections held in 1946 in Greece. It states that a chapter in quantitative political science and international relations was written in the spring of 1946 when allied governments of Great Britain, the U.S. and France sent a mission to Greece to observe the parliamentary election of March 31, 1946 for obtaining quantitative information concerning compliance of that country's inhabitants with their own election laws. The organization, officially known as Allied Mission to observe the Greek Elections, was formed specifically to carry out provisions of Varkiza Agreement. This agreement, which was signed on February 12, 1945, a day after the publication of the Yalta Declaration, required in part that Greece should hold both a plebiscite and parliamentary elections and stated that "representatives of both sides agree that for the verification of the genuineness of the popular will at these elections, the great Allied Powers shall be requested to send observers." Basing its decision largely on its quantitative findings, the mission reported to its governments that the election proceedings were on the whole free and fair and that the general outcome represents a true and valid verdict of the Greek people.