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Amazingly lucky, General Metaxas has risen to be Premier this year because Death has carried off Grand Old Greek Eleutherios Venizelos, rival General George Kondylis, onetime Premier Panayoti Tsaldaris and Premier Constantine Demerdjis...
...Died. Panayoti Tsaldaris. 68, onetime (1933-35) Greek Premier, longtime leader of the Greek Popular party; of heart disease: in Athens...
...Majesty, with an air of feeling perfectly at ease, extracted the royal handkerchief and blew the royal nose, a homely sound which drew first grins, then cheers. Two weeks ago the King, having forced erstwhile Dictator General George Kondylis to resign as Premier, was challenged. Newsorgans controlled by Panayoti Tsaldaris, whose henchmen hold a majority of seats in Parliament, demanded that Parliament be convened by the King to confirm or reject his restoration...
...King would communicate with Greece only through the Greek Minister to Great Britain. He discovered to his chagrin that George II was exchanging cables privately with the head of another group of Greek Royalists who want parliamentary government instead of Kondylis' Dictatorship. They are headed by onetime Premier Panayoti Tsaldaris. Last week in Athens a frequent caller at Tsaldaris' house was Britain's Minister to Greece, Sydney Philip Waterlow. Slowly it dawned on General Kondylis that he, pro-Italian, Dictator and Kingmaker, had made the worst possible choice of King for his purposes. Of mixed Danish-German...
What many a Greek "royalist" leader wanted was a monarchy with himself as Regent. Time & again the Government of Royalist Premier Panayoti Tsaldaris has named a date for a plebiscite on Monarchy v. Republic, time & again postponed it. Last week a few surviving republicans and at least two monarchist cliques were preparing coups d'état suitable to a poor, intrigue-ridden nation on the end of the Balkan peninsula, when tough, fierce-eyed, mustachioed War Minister George ("Little Corporal") Kondylis beat them to the draw...