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...election came after Premier Pana-yoti Tsaldaris, rated for years as a Royalist, put down the revolution of his arch enemy, famed Eleutherios Venizelos, "Father of the Greek Republic" (TIME, March 11 et seq.). In that bloody victory there should have been something for George II and he at once sent an agent to Athens to see about his Crown. But victorious Premier Tsaldaris was by no means ready to kiss the royal hand. He sent to the polls candidates for something he called the Government Party, while loyal old General John Metaxas put up Royalist Party candidates. Only nine...
...Athens last week uprose Field Marshal George Kondylis, War Minister and supposed to be a Republican. "We do not consider," he startlingly declared, "that the defeat of the Royalists means the defeat of the royalist idea." Meanwhile Premier Tsaldaris abruptly announced that a nationwide plebiscite will be held on the issue of whether to invite George II to return to Athens as King. The newly elected Assembly, said M. Tsaldaris, will set the date for this plebiscite. On which side he himself would be the Premier let Greece guess but Athens buzzed with rumors that he and his Cabinet...
Most Greeks have more than a suspicion that their Royalist Premier, ruthless M. Panyoti Tsaldaris, expected to restore Greek King George II two years ago, if hired assassins had only succeeded in slaying the greatest of living Greeks, foxy old M. Eleutherios Venizelos, eight times Premier and even in retirement the strong "Shield of the Republic...
Another aspect of this fable of many facets is that beauty and comedy and tragedy remain in life, even in the midst of apocalyptic happenings. As the fated people move on past the Urals, the love affair of Raoul Perez, Royalist son of the Paris banker, also moves on to a happy consummation with Leah, daughter of an orthodox rabbi. An old woman dies. Sonia, an infant violinist, insists upon her artistic kinship with Menuhin. Scientists squabble about their laboratory problems. The Passover is celebrated. Mr. Alberg, the Communist, predicts that blood will flow in the Gobi as the brotherhood...
True, there are forming, in England today, a few minority militant malcontent organizations. Oswald Moseley's Fascists, the royalist "English Mistery," are indications of the unrest of the times; the wonder being, however, not that they have sprung up, but that they are not more plentiful...