Word: populists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Citing the Tsaldaris-led Populist government as "certainly not representative" under the meaning of the Marshall plan, Papandreou urged that the United States, whose presence minimizes the possibility of violent revolution, go ahead and decide the composition of a suitable government and then act to insure that such a government be established...
...rule, prohibiting any inquiry into the political beliefs of an applicant for a federal job. It was a wise and liberal provision in days when the radical fringe consisted of nothing more horrendous than the Greenback National and Prohibition parties. It remained valid during the rise & fall of the Populist, Progressive, Bull Moose and Socialist-Labor movements. Their adherents were loyal to the U.S. first, to their party second-and never to a foreign government. Not until 1939 was the rule amended, to bar those who seek to overthrow the U.S. Government...
...Populist Control...
...government which was put into office at the March 31 election is controlled by members of the Populist party, some of whom were collaborators during the German occupation, and many of whom took no part in the resistance movement sponsored by the liberal parties headed by the EAM. Leading policies of the present government are restoration of King George and a "Greater Greece" which will include the Dodecanese Islands, now coveted by the USSR...
Britain's Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin beamed; his bull-necked insistence on holding the elections, he felt, was now justified. Just as beamish were the Greek election winners, the royalist Populist Party, led by Foreign Minister Constantin Tsaldaris. For the time being, the Populists, despite the presence in their ranks of some extremist reactionary elements, moved warily; thousands of Greeks who had turned against the Left because of EAM terror last year might swing back if the Right disclosed a mailed fist. As Premier of a small coalition Cabinet (Right and Center) they chose Panayotis Poulitsas, an amiable nonpartisan...