GREEK MINISTERS RESIGN
♦ KING CRUSHES MILITARY LEAGUE (Received March 6, 7.20 p.m.) ATHENS, March 5. King George of Greece has disrupted a military league hostile to the formation of a Venezeiist Government by compelling the resignations of the War Minister (General Papagos) and the Secretary for State (General Platis). The war portfolio is now held by General IVlctdXflS* It is understood that the King, who is determined to reign constituticjnally, threatened n second abdication before he would allow a military dictatorship to assume power. An early reconstruction of the stop-gap Cabinet is expected further to ease the situation.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21726, 7 March 1936, Page 17
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