Word: royalistic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This oath does not mean what it says, wily Premier Panayoti Tsaldaris was at pains to explain. The deputies, mostly henchmen of Premier Tsaldaris' so-called Government Party, were elected by Greeks who suspected M. Tsaldaris of being secretly Royalist but thought they could trust him to uphold the Greek Republic 53 demanded by the official oath. Explaining it glibly away, last week Royalist Tsaldaris declared: "The words 'Parliamentary Republic' do not need to be changed because a Republican Government is not necessarily without a King." The Tsaldaris Government next decided that between Sept...
...Athens, meanwhile, a Royalist deputy introduced a bill to pay 1,000,000 drachmas ($9,500) to any Greek who assassinates the exiled "Father of the Greek Republic," famed Eleutherios Venizelos. In Paris the bodyguard of M. Venizelos was instantly doubled. Summoning reporters, M. Venizelos dipped frequently into a Greek-English and English-Greek dictionary to find epithets vehement enough to denounce Georgios and the Royalists...
...suddenly to life. He would, he said, be glad to receive a process server any time, because now he intended to challenge in a New York Federal Court SEC's right to subpoena him or to regulate the issuance and sale of his securities. Cried the blond oil royalist...
...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...