GREECE: Royal Plebiscite

A dapper little Dane who for one year reigned as King of the Greeks is George II, a great-nephew of Britain's late Queen Alexandra and a frequent house guest of her Son George V. Last week George II was hopefully trying in London to make head or tail of the latest Greek election. So were most Greeks.

The election came after Premier Pana-yoti Tsaldaris, rated for years as a Royalist, put down the revolution of his arch enemy, famed Eleutherios Venizelos, "Father of the Greek Republic" (TIME, March 11 et seq.). In...

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