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...this happened 17 months ago (TIME, June 19, 1933). Statesman Venizelos retired to the sanctuary of his native Crete. The Athens police swore loudly that they would seize the assailants...
...Eureka !" cried the Republican Defense League. Blushing fiery red Minister of the Interior Yannopulos and the Chief of Police resigned. Premier Tsaldaris promptly declared the Republican Defense League an illegal organization. Statesman Venizelos remained in Crete, smiling. He has been Premier eight times. The new-scandal of last week will help him stage another comeback...
...Sykes-Macmillan ($7). Who first went exploring purely in search of knowledge is unknown. Merchant-explorers more than three millennia before Christ were the Sumerians, whose high civilization glimmered before history's dawn. Exploration was a by-product of trade and conquest for the Assyrians, the Minoans of Crete, the Phoenicians, the Greeks. Anaximander of Miletus (Sixth Century B. C.) drew up the earliest known map of the world, which he regarded as a cross-section of a great cylinder hanging from the heavens. A generation later Hecataeus wrote Periodos, the first known book of geography. Exploration...
Banana-shaped Crete, in the centre, belongs to Greece. There in prehistoric times lived the Minotaur and there men fashioned golden goblets of great beauty and invented the water closet. On Crete at present is the summer home and strategic retreat of Eleutherios Venizelos, sly Grand Old Man of Greek politics...
...aren't they perfectly right, these watchful citizenesses? Why should one admit to one's presence one who devours hardboiled capitalists with the same appetite and relish as once upon a time the ogre Minotaurus in Crete devoured luscious Greek maidens-a person who, in addition, is so vulgar as to oppose every war, except the inevitable one with his own wife? "Give heed, therefore, to the sage patriotic dear ladies and remember that the capitol of mighty Rome was at one time saved by the cackling of her faithful geese." When he went...