the British Consul in Salonika, hoping that Peck would pass that information back to the Foreign Office in London. He was warned by General Clark, the head of the British Economic Mission, not to get "too close" to trades unions. Following a plebescite, King George II was restored to the Greek throne. Mass arrests and executions of both moderate and communist leftists, and village massacres, became more frequent, and the civil war worsened. Sheppard continued to attend trials and visit jails and camps. On one occasion, he intervened to prevent the execution of a fifteen year old schoolgirl, Euphraxia Nicolaides, who had been charged with "giving material comfort to the rebels". For this he was reprimanded for "exceeding his authority" and "interfering in the affairs of a friendly nation". During these post-war years in Greece, Sheppard made sure to locate and visit the friends that he had made during the war years to "thank them for everything they had done, not just for him but for other Australian troops" at great risk for themselves and their family members. Unofficial ambassador for Greek rebels Having lost his position with the British Economic Mission in January 1947 when it shut down its operations in Greece, Sheppard returned to Britain and undertook a series of speaking engagements throughout England and Wales on behalf of the League for Democracy in Greece. He addressed the Foreign Affairs Sub-Committee in the House of Commons in Westminster. It was on that occasion that he learnt his eye-witness reports on the various Greek Civil War atrocities submitted to Peck for forwarding to the Foreign Office had been altered by Peck or someone else to suggest the leftists were to blame and absolving the right-wing forces. Returning to Australia to rejoin his family, Sheppard found himself under attack by conservatives including Adair Macalister Blain, MP, and Major William S. Jordan in News Weekly, suggesting he was a Communist. In reply, the Australian Minister for the Army, the Hon. Cyril Chambers confirmed that "Army records do not indicate that this officer has had any official connexion of the nature mentioned". A similar accusation occurred in October 1948 when Jack Lang, MP declared that Sheppard was a traitor, whose passport should be confiscated. The Australian Minister for Immigration, the Hon. Arthur Calwell, wrote a letter confirming Sheppard was not a Communist and that his Australian passport remained valid. In a letter