MASTER OF GREECE

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 133, 1 March 1929, Page 11

MASTER OF GREECE

IS VENIZELOS AIMING AT DICTATORSHIP? RECALL OF MONARCH • UNLIKELY ((United Press Association.—By Electric Telegro ph.—Copyright) (Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) London, February 27. '• Venizelos is planning to be Dictator of Greece, according to the “Daily Mail’s” special diplomatic correspondent/ who, after an investigation of the Greek situation on the spot, discounts the suggestion that the differences between Venizelos and King George have been so composed that there is a likelihood of the exiled monarch’s recall. The correspondent says that Venikelos is at present a stronger force in ' Greece than ever, and as long as he is alive, a restoration of King George is out of the/question. Venizelos constantly protests to the contrary, but it is known that it is his personal ambition to terminate his political career as President of the Republic, in which a man of his will and character’would be virtual dictator. It is significant that Royalist politicians before the election in August, when Venizelos rolled back to power, described themselves /as Royalists. Now they simply present themselves as “Anti-Zenizel-ists.” .....

The correspondent adds that the Venizelist Cabinet has the support of 80 per cent, of Parliament. Venizelos himself, although sixty-five, seems to have taken a new lease of life, and is at present working like a Trojan to consolidate and popularise the Republic, and thus make his own position invulnerable for the day when he becomes King of the-Hellenes without a crown. ■