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Edward F. Burke '50 and Jerrold P. Bahn '49 successfully upheld the negative of the question: "Resolved, That the veto power of the United Nations Big Five be abolished now." Judging the contest were A. G. Papandreou, instructor in Economics and Adam B. Ulam, teaching fellow in Government. This was the fifth Debating Council victory in the ten debates held thus far this fall...
...Game. "While the British were busy distributing food and endeavoring to keep things steady, the EAM and Communist ministers, who were eventually increased to seven in the Papandreou Government, were playing a different game. Throughout this has been a struggle for power. They were playing a game of ELAS bands and their Communist directors. While sitting in Mr. Papandreou's Cabinet, they were working in closest combination with the forces gathering to destroy it and him, him and his colleagues representative of everyday life in Greece . . . and when the fierce mountaineers had got well into the city, all those...
Still silent, the four Greeks sat down at the table and one by one added their signatures. Hollow-cheeked John Zevgos, Communist Minister of Agriculture in the Papandreou cabinet, signed first; then Demetrios Partsalidis, pale, white-headed Secretary-General of the EAM, Major Theodore Macridis, black-bearded operations officer of the ELAS general staff, and Major Athanasios Athenellis...
...across a table. At the head, in his flowing black robes of office, sat the chairman, towering, bearded Archbishop Damaskinos, primate of the Greek Orthodox Church, no politician but now deeply concerned with the politics of his country's agony. Down one side sat lanky, leonine Premier George Papandreou with members of his Government and leaders of other political groups. At the other end were Churchill, Eden, Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander, Lieut. General Ronald Scobie, U.S. Ambassador Lincoln MacVeagh, French Ambassador Jean Batlen, Soviet Military Attaché Colonel Gregory Popoff. Only the ELAS seats were vacant...
...steps necessary to restore order and tranquility," that the King would not return to Greece "unless summoned by a free and fair expression of national will." The Archbishop proclaimed his own immediate two-point plan: 1) a new national Government, 2) cessation of the civil war. Promptly Premier Papandreou and his Cabinet resigned...