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...Athens rugged, bronzed, handsome General Giorgios Tsolakoglou denounced the flight of King George II to the island of Crete as cowardly, announced the formation of a new Greek Government headed by himself and an Army cabal. No man could say whether or not General Tsolakoglou was a quisling. For King and country the Army of Epirus had bravely fought the Italians for six months before he surrendered it to the Nazis at Salonika three weeks ago. With the departure of George II's Government and with the retirement of Commander in Chief General Alexander Papagos, somebody had to lead...
...hoped for Spanish Restoration, would welcome British-trained Don Juan as king. Monarchist-minded Boss Franco is also Axis-minded, and for this reason he had nothing to say about Alfonso's gesture last week. Meanwhile in Mexico fugitive Spanish Republicans announced that they had banded with a cabal of anti-Franco Monarchists for Franco's overthrow. If the Spanish die were cast, it had not stopped rolling...
Most Americans learned in school that during the dark winter at Valley Forge, Washington was the near-victim of a cabal cooked up by Irish Expatriate and French General Thomas Conway, by Dr. Benjamin Rush, by the Adams cousins. Sam & John. Purpose of the plot was to replace Washington by General Horatio Gates. Now Historian Knollenberg reviews the documents to conclude that no such cabal ever existed, that the long-lived rumor was due in part to Washington's touchiness, dictatorial arrogance, "disingenuousness," skill at passing the buck for his own mistakes. In part it was due to wild...
...Conway and Gates were two of the most respected and able officers in the Continental Army. Cleared of the charge of cowardice after his defeat at Camden, S. C., Gates was second in command of the Army when the war ended. Washington had to exaggerate stray rumors of a cabal to cover up his inability to discipline his own troops, his inability to win battles...
Under its present organization, the H. D. C. is guided in its choice of plan and policy by the opinions of a cabal-like Executive Committee. Although such concentration of power has been unintentional, it has nevertheless deprived forty ordinary members of almost all say as to what, when and why the productions of the Club shall be. Cheerfully resenting the dissipation of their ten-dollar membership fee toward a production they may have had no liking for, this rank and file has not been able to give their best to the Club...