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...Bulgarian listeners Radio Sofia broadcast a more sensational side of the trials (see above). One of the defendants was a former Regent, Prince Cyril, brother of the late Tsar Boris III, who died mysteriously after a command visit with Adolf Hitler a year and a half...
Greece had chosen a Regent,* Archbishop Damaskinos (TIME, Jan. 8). The Archbishop chose as Premier Greece's No. 1 kingbreaker, fresh from eleven years of exile in, France. Some Greeks were pleased. They remembered Plastiras as the democratic strongman who helped depose King Constantine in 1922, King George II the following year. Other Greeks were disappointed. They remembered Plastiras' unsuccessful attempt to seize the Government...
...conference room the second session grew so stormy that the Archbishop adjourned the meeting before blows were struck. From the spate of tempestuous talk emerged only one point of unanimity: Archbishop Damaskinos was acceptable to all parties as Regent. But George II of Greece, waiting in London's swank Claridge's, must not delay his consent...
Head of the Government was Colonel General Béla Miklos de Dalnok, 56, former commander of the Hungarian First Army who went over to the Russians with his staff last October after Regent Nicholas Horthy's ill-fated try for an armistice. Among his ministers: an author and student of agrarian reform; a history professor jailed by Horthy for "subversive activities" ; a geology professor and cousin of Count Paul Teleki, ex-Premier who committed suicide in April 1941. Notably absent was Hungary's top Communist, Matyas Rakosi, sixtyish, stout ex-commissar in the Communist Government...
...Regent In? On the pressing problem of a regency for Greece (TIME, Dec. 25) Mr. Eden was equally conciliatory. "We are not against a regency. . . . The first suggestion for a regency was made by our ambassador in Athens. . . ." With Britain's imprimatur, a regency seemed the quickest way to end the fighting...