GREECE: Murder! Murder!

In two Athens newspapers foxy old Premier Eleutherios Venizelos read simultaneous appeals which moved him deeply. Next day he tendered the resignation of his Cabinet, exclaimed to the Greek Parliament, "The fierce attacks made on me and on my government have made it impossible to cope with the country's serious situation. Two editors have actually gone so far as to advocate my murder and appeal for someone to carry it out. . . . Men of Hellas, Greece must be preserved from anarchy at all costs."

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