GREECE: Venizelos Leaves

Eleutherios Zenizelos, ex-Premier, announced that he and his wife intended to leave immediately for Cannes in the south of France. He charged: "My rivals in the poliitical world accused me of having counseled the murder of the ex-Ministers [in November, 1922], while my old collaborators strongly oppose the adoption of my policy."

He said that he was mistaken in thinking that he could serve his country, that he would like to stay and go on trying, but that his health compelled him to withdraw from politics indefinitely.

The Kafandaris Cabinet collapsed after Venizelos' decision...

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