GREECE: Republicans into Royalists

On a recent trip abroad wily old Premier Panayoti Tsaldaris ascertained that British King George frowns upon the project of some Greek Royalists to seat the Duke of Kent upon their vacant throne (TIME, Aug. 19); that despite the feelings of his Greece-born, Greece-loving Duchess, the Duke personally recoils from a project so adventurous and, finally, that London bankers are now backing deposed Georgios II who never abdicated as King of Greece. Last week British George V once more showed where he stood by having "Gorgeous Georgios" II as his grouse-shooting guest...

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