UNCROWNED KING

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 28 February 1929, Page 5

UNCROWNED KING

M. VENIZELOS’S AMBITION

TO BE DICTATOR OF GREECE.

(Per Press Association —Copyright)

United Service. Received this day, 11.40 a.m. LONDON, Feb. 27.

M. 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 Venizelos and King George are so composed that there is a likelihood of the exiled monarch’s recall, and says that Venizelos is at present a stronger force in Greece than ever. As long as he is alive the 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 a republic in which a man of his will and character would be virtually dictator. It is significant that the royalist politicians who before the election in August, when Venizelos rolled back to power, described themselves as royalists, now simply present themselves as “anti-Venizelists.” The correspondent adds : “The Venizelist Cabinet has the support of ninety 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 fo.r the day when he becomes the King of Hellenes without a crown.”