Word: papandreou
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Greek Cypriots were enraged. Said the mayor of Nicosia: "E.O.K.A. was not defeated. This was not what we expected." From Athens Greek opposition leader George Papandreou heatedly declaimed: "The attitude of the British government and Executioner Harding leaves only one answer, an implacable fight for freedom." Disdainfully, E.O.K.A.'s "Dighenis the Leader" (whom the British identify as former Greek army Colonel George Grivas) echoed the classic answer that Leonidas the Spartan reportedly made to Xerxes and his Persian hordes at Thermopylae: "Molon lave" ("Come...
...voters were neither anti-Western nor antiDemocratic. Many of them were old-line Liberals, supporters of the late Eleutherios Venizelos, whose picture appeared on many placards and still carried great appeal in remote places where voters did not know that his son Sophocles and ex-Premier George Papandreou allied themselves with the Communist-front E.D.A. in the Democratic Union...
...This alliance is for electoral purposes only," insisted Papandreou, and swore he would not cooperate with the Reds after election. While Papandreou promised merely "a new foreign policy," Communist claques took over his rallies, shouting in Athens' Klafthmonos Square: "Out of NATO. Out with Americans." The shabby deal with the Communists may have cost the Liberals more votes than the Communists brought them...
Ambassador's Victory. The deal was cooked up and served to the startled public last week. This six-party coalition, apologized old George Papandreou, was "purely pre-electoral," and the non-Communists made no "ideological commitments" to the Communists. But in the streets, cafés and foreign embassies, it was received quite plainly as a victory for the Communists. It was a great coup for Russian Ambassador Mikhail Sergeev: for 2½ years he has been backslapping through the Grecian hinterlands, working to efface the bitter anti-Communism of civil-war days...
Said a disillusioned young army captain after digesting the news: "We kept the Communists out with our guns and our blood. Now Papandreou wants to let them back in through the ballot...