Word: thumbsdown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Venizelos had been disgruntled ever since U.S. Ambassador Henry Grady intervened squarely in Greek politics last March, and gave a thumbsdown on a pro-royalist government headed by Liberal Venizelos. Instead, Greece got a coalition government under Middle-of-the-Roader Plastiras, who has been accused of being too soft toward the Communists. Five members of Venizelos' Liberal Party were represented in the coalition cabinet, but Venizelos himself stayed aloof. When Venizelos ordered the five to resign last fortnight, the cabinet promptly collapsed and King Paul entrusted Venizelos himself with the task of forming a new government. Plastiras...
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