POLITICAL CRISIS IN GREECE.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18202, 1 March 1929, Page 9

POLITICAL CRISIS IN GREECE.

Activities Of Venizelos. IS A DICTATORSHIP COMING? (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, February 27. AT. Venizelos is planning to be Dictator of Greece, according to the “Daily Mail’s” special diplomatic correspondent, after investigation of the Greek situation on the spot. He discounts the suggestion that the differences between M. Venizelos and ex-King George are so composed that there is a likelihood of tho exiled monarch’s recall, and says that M. Venizelos is at piesent a stronger force in Greece than ever. As long as he is alive the restoration of King George is out c-f the question.

M. Venizelos constantly protests to the contrary, but it is known that it is his personal ambition to terminate liis political career as President of the Republic, in which a man of his will and character would be a virtual dictator.

It is significant that Royalist politicians, who before the election in August, when M. Venizelos rolled back to power, described themselves as Royalists, now simply present themselves as “anti-Venizrlists.”

The correspondent adds: “The Venizelist Cabinet has the support of 90 per cent, of Parliament. M. Venizelos himself, although 65, 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 liis own position invulnerable for the day when he becomes King of the Hellenes without a crown.”