GREECE: No Compliments

The rightist Government of Premier Demetrios Maximos had been in power seven months. Careful research showed that in the English language there have been hardly any utterances complimentary to it. In the rich, rollicking Russian language there was ample invective (which was only natural). The Greek language did not count much in the Greek situation, but for what it was worth, three highly articulate Greeks stood up last week and spoke. The upshot: Maximos was out.

The dissenting Greeks were Sophocles Venizelos, George Papandreou and Panayotis Kanellopoulos, the only middle-of-the-road ministers in...

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