GREEK SENATE ABOLISHED
COUNTRY GOVERNED BY DECREES GENERAL ELECTION NEXT MONTH Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright ATHENS, April (Received April 2, at 11 a.m.) The Government has issued a proclamation abolishing the Senate on the ground that “ it has shown defectiveness to the point of destroying confidence in the value of public institutions.” The elections for the National Assembly are fixed for May 19, after which constitutional reforms will be canned out. The country in the meantime is governed by decrees, the first of which abrogates the clause in the constitution prohibiting the dismissal of Civil servants. Many meetings in country districts have passed resolutions condemning the sentences at the court martial on March 31 as too lenient. M. Pesmaglou (Minister of Finance) says that the Premier’s Under-Secretary has •resigned after making comments on the court-martial, which were regarded as inopportune.
General Bakopoulos, the president of the court-martial, has been transferred to Ganea for a similar reason.
The Prime Minister (M. Tsaldaris) refuses to revise the verdict, adding that the Government is determined that future rebellion shall he made impossible,
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Evening Star, Issue 21994, 2 April 1935, Page 9
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