Word: regente
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...Regent heaved an episcopal sigh of relief. His month-long quest for a Premier to succeed conservative Admiral Petros Voulgaris was over. In his Athens Palace last week black-bearded, black-robed Archbishop Damaskinos gladly divested himself of his stopgap function as Premier and swore in a new man: slightly-left-of-center Panayotis Kanellopoulos, leader of the National Unionist Party...
...Imperial institution, nor Japanese reverence for it, necessarily required the indefinite presence of Hirohito himself. Jap and U.S. thoughts alike were much upon Hirohito's son, eleven-year-old Prince Akihito, and the Emperor's frail younger brother, Prince Chichibu, the logical (but not inevitable) choice for regent...
Modern Greeks needed such a man of action-who "restrained the multitudes while respecting their liberties." The man of action they got-Archbishop Da-maskinos (rhymes with "seen us"), Regent of Greece-returned last week to Athens after a busy fortnight in London and Paris...
Born in Blood. No people in the postwar world had longed more for freedom; none had so endangered their liberties in their bloody efforts to win it. As Regent and Archbishop, Damaskinos was at once the product and the personification of the efforts and the dangers...
...Russia surprisingly agreed that invitations to speak before the Council be granted to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and India. Russia's friends, Yugoslavia and Poland and the Soviet Republics of the Ukraine and White Russia also were permitted to present their views. Greece's Regent, Archbishop Damaskinos, did not appear before the Council but worked effectively behind the scenes...