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Foxy M. Venizelos, having obtained this promise, considered himself well out of the Premiership last week, prepared to enjoy one of his periods of "indefinite retirement" at his home on Crete...
Next to arrive were 50 Tommys from Egypt, who flew in. After them flew six more British troop planes from Alexandria 350 miles away. Late in arriving were 300 British Marines from Crete (400 mi.). Unable to fly to Cyprus, they came on four fleet British war boats...
Promptly. Tsaldaris henchmen sneered that of course the foxy "Old Man of Crete" would like to stage a plebiscite while his Government controls the Ministry of. Interior. The Minister of Interior conducts all Greek elections, is supposed to win most of them...
...long and so spectacularly has white-whiskered Prime Minister Eleutherios Venizelos, "Grand Old Man of Crete," directed the troubled destiny of his country that most foreigners and many a Greek are apt to forget that the country really has a President...
...none is more popularly associated with singing than the bathroom. Last week, grand opera reached the bathroom. The curtain of Berlin's Second State Opera House, rising for the world premiere of Neues vom Tage (The Day's News), latest opus of ultra-modern Composer Paul Hindemith, revealed Primadonna Crete Stueckgold seated in a tub with real-looking soapsuds up to her chin, warbling about the delights of a hot bath...