GREECE: Venizelos Takes Charge

Events, official and unofficial, in Greece's bloodless revolution (TIME Dec. 31, Jan. 7) :

¶Ex-Premier Eleutherios Venizelos arrived in Athens. Colonel Plastiras, ex-Dictator of Greece, a few friends and some journalists met him. The streets of the capital were deserted. He arrived at 3:30 a.m.

¶At a dinner given by the ex-Ministers of the Revolutionary Government, M. Venizelos said: "I intend to remain only until I obtain what I came for, namely, to suppress the probability of civil war. I am not asking the Greeks to do the impossible. I do not expect all...

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