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Though born a Greek, Andreas Papandreou grew up to become as American as Harvard Yard...
...chief of the army but in fact had their loyalty -more than he could expect from any of the other factions in the Greek body politic. Nonetheless Greek newspapers from left to right erupted in denunciatory horror ("The crown must be kept in its place"), and Premier George Papandreou rescinded the decree...
...between politicians and the royal family imposed by the death of King Paul last March, the Cyprus crisis, and the wedding. The next shot, aimed directly at Queen Mother Frederika, was fired last week from the ambush Athenian politicians typically employ: the rumor columns of the newspapers. A pro-Papandreou newspaper reported it had "learned" from government sources that the widowed Queen Mother had agreed to leave Greece and retire to an estate in Austria in return for a large pension from the government. Other papers quickly joined in to embroider the indelicate suggestion. It was said Frederika had demanded...
...Frederika, an exceedingly bright woman who takes the Greek throne seriously and speaks her mind about matters of state in the man's world of the Mediterranean, this was the last straw. She fired back her own letter to Papandreou and had it delivered to all of the Athens papers. "The late King Paul and I," she wrote, "lived our whole life inspired only by our unselfish love for our people and our family. After the cruel loss of my husband, it is with these happy memories that I wish to live, quietly and in peace...
...riposte at least served to rally the rightist opposition to the monarchy's side, and at that, the wily Papandreou finally spoke up, announced the whole matter of the pension would be dropped since Frederika did not want it. Papandreou had good reason for his caution: a year ago, when Premier Constantine Karamanlis, who in his eight years in power had been a close ally of Frederika and King Paul, vetoed a trip to Britain the royal couple wanted to make, he lost their friendship-and his premiership...