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With iron censorship fettering the Press last week, shocking reports circulated by word of mouth throughout the Peninsula and the Isles of Greece. On the Island of Crete, stronghold of foxy onetime Premier Eleutherios Venizelos, a holiday was declared, bonfires were lighted and there was dancing in the streets...
...King's friends have poisoned Kondylis, hurrah! hurrah!! HURRAH!!!" rejoiced the ruffians of Crete. Few if any Greeks above the ruffian class believed anything so unlikely and outrageous. It was convenient, though, for newly restored King George II that His Majesty's embittered opponent, the deposed Dictator of Greece, Field Marshal George Kondylis, had just died with extreme suddenness "of a heart attack." In Greece it was inevitable that a death so convenient should seem, ipso facto, another case of foul play. The Field Marshal was a ruthless man with many ruthless enemies...
...means dead are the Greek generals and assorted officers of all ranks who, under Field Marshal Kondylis, suppressed the Revolution which sent crafty old Eleutherios Venizelos fleeing from Crete to Paris last year, and sent to exiled King George II in London an invitation to resume his Throne (TIME, Nov. 18). Dictator Kondylis, a great admirer of Dictator Mussolini, had counted on running Greece under George II in pro-Italian fashion. But exiled George II, deep in debt to British bankers, is also under heavy personal obligation to the British Royal Family. Therefore in Athens the restored King showed himself...
When word was flashed to Athens that the indiscreet Greek was straightway murdered and that his home was in Crete, no attention was paid by Greek Royalist Dictator Kondylis (see p. 21). The Greek island of Crete is notoriously a hotbed of Republicans...
...special du Pont fellowship for work in the chemical Laboratories here is being given to Robert P. Jacobsen, of Crete, Nebraska. He received an M.A. from George Washington University in '31 and his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland...