Μετά το καλοκαίρι του '43 οι Άγγλοι έθεταν σε δεύτερη μοίρα την Ελληνική Αντίσταση

Ανδρέας Γερολυμάτος, Kαθηγητής Ιστορίας στο Πανεπιστήμιο Dawson του Καναδά με ειδίκευση στην στρατιωτική και διπλωματική Ιστορία:

........After the summer of 1943, the resistance and the SOE did not figure prominently in Allied military plans in Greece. Allied strategy in 1944 was directed almost exclusively toward the invasion of western Europe; the eastern Mediterranean, with the exception of the abortive Dodekanese operation, became a secondary theater of operations. For the duration of the occupation of Greece, SOE policy was directed by Headquarters Middle East and guided by narrow military considerations.
Matters affecting the postwar political agenda regarding the monarchy and the resistance shifted entirely to the Foreign Office and the British ambassador to the Greek government-in-exile.......