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...Born on Crete, equipped with an Athens law degree, he soon developed an extraordinary flair for leadership, a marvelous sense of situation, a nearly perfect aim with a revolver and one of the greatest poker faces in Europe. Crete was then still Turkish. Venizelos rapidly led two revolts, won Cretan autonomy, the first step toward union with Greece. The Greek Crown sent a chuckleheaded prince as Commissioner to Crete. With another revolt, Venizelos kicked him out because the prince looked on Cretans as a subject race. His local fame as a Cretan established. Venizelos moved to Athens and proceeded...
...reputed) library, preparatory to confiscating them. As Mussolini turned a cold shoulder to all Greek attempts to extradite the person of the rebel leader, old Venizelos prepared to end his days in exile with his second wife* and the two sons of his first wife, a beautiful Cretan girl dead these 40 years. He smiled sourly when he heard that his opponent. General Kondylis. who was once his ally and fellow-conspirator, had said, "When conditions become normal, the people will be given the opportunity to decide whether to restore the monarchy...
...Cretan Painting; the Pottery", Professor Chase, Van Renssalier room, Fogg Museum...
...never wrote or spoke of him except as Dominico Greco. Great princes of the 16th Century, whose eyes were unsealed, honored him by this name; the men of nearer times, putting on once more fetters laid off in the Renaissance, wondered only whether Greco was mad or astigmatic, a Cretan voluptuary, or a disciple of the art of Byzantium. So much, at least, is certain: he was born in Crete about the year 1547, he went to Italy to study; and there his work was influenced by Titian and Tintoretto. It is said that he lived in a little room...
Everything considered, it seems quite unlikely that King George will be invited to leave his delightful Swiss chalet; but Greek politics will continue to supply the stepsick of democratic comedy, for apparently only a German or a Cretan can rule the fruity Hellenes...