After years of postwar chaos and corruption, Greek politics finally achieved a state of equilibrium when two widely disparate personalities teamed up in Athens. One was resolute old Field Marshal Alexander Papagos, the war hero who was elected Premier at the head of the coalition Greek Rally Party. The other: a brilliant and unpredictable political rival named Spyros Markezinis. A small man with a quick brain, Spyros Markezinis was as unpopular as his new boss was beloved. But Papagos made him Minister of Economic Planning, gave him complete control of the disheveled...
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