GREECE: Fired!

To facilitate the work of the National Assembly in reaching an unbiased decision on the future constitutional regime, the Gonatas Cabinet decided to ask King George and Queen Elizabeth to leave the country. A bonus of 1,000,000 drachmas and a pension of 1,500,000 drachmas a year were voted to the King.

The Cabinet came to this decision after receiving the following resolution from a group of Army and Navy officers under general Pangalos : 1) That the gulf dividing the Hellenes is due to the Glucksburg dynasty; 2) That the same dynasty,...

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