GREECE: Grand Admiral

So long and so spectacularly has white-whiskered Prime Minister Eleutherios Venizelos, "Grand Old Man of Crete," directed the troubled destiny of his country that most foreigners and many a Greek are apt to forget that the country really has a President.

Last week the first and only President of the Greek Republic attracted a certain amount of attention to himself by resigning.

Venerable, venerated Paul Koundouriotis, 74, good friend and fellow revolutionist of Prime Minister Venizelos, was appointed Grand Admiral for Life in the Grecian Navy in 1919 in recognition of his notable...

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