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Too Many Laws Are All Greek To

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TUESDAY, MARCH 29 By Air

The Greeks

PREMIER ORDERS

CODIFICATION

Athens, Mar. 28.

Field Marshal Alexander Papagos, the Greek Prime Minister, following the example set 1,500 years ago, by Byzantine Emperor Justinian, has Thalland, Juriča Middle East ordered the general ̈eodification of the laws of

Kor. 6 p.m.

Fortunes, Japan, Okinawa, U.S.A.

* Canada, 5 p.m.

Adutos, Great Britain & Europe, &

p.m.

By surface

Macao, 69.m.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30

By Air Indo-China, 8.1.

Thailand, 11 a.m. Formosa, Okhawa, Japan, Korea, Canada, a...

Thailand. Malaya, Indonesia, Aus- tralia, New Zealand. & Ceylon..

b.m.

Switzerland, Denmark,

Sweden. 6 p.m.

· Formosa. 6 p.m.

By Surface

Macao, 9 a..

Norway,

China, People's Republic, 10 30 am.

Thailand. 1 pm.

Formosa, 1 p.m.

Korea.

p.in.

Philippines. 2 p.m.

Macao, & p.m.

THURSDAY, MARCH 3

By Ab

Japan. 8 a.m.

Greece.

In a recent statement, he announced that he had entrusted the Ministry of Co-ordination with the huge task of codifying "at the shortest possible time," the thousands of existing Greek

laws.

Like the Emperor Justinian, Justinian solved the dilemma who, in the year 528, appointed by decreeing that only the the legal expert Trivonianos to "Corpus Juris Civilis," the code codify existing East Roman complied by Trivonlinos, Laws, Marshal Papagos has now valid. appointed Professor Petrus

Today,

Wis

Professor Vallindas,

Vallindas, to supervise the pre- 46-year-old Professor of Inter- sent task of codification.

national Law at the University

DISORDERLINESS

Describing the "disorder- liness" of Greek legislation, Field Marshal Pagagos de- clared:

****

"In addition to 14,000 u Thakand, Burna, India, Pakis- bered laws, there are innumer- tan, Middle East, Africa, Great Briable emergency laws, constituent

tain & Európe. 18 sun.

Japan, Noon.

Phlippines. U.S.A.. 2 pm.

Gunm

Hawail

Philippines N. Borneo, d" p.m.

By Surface

Macao, a.m. China, People's Republic, 10:30 am.

United Nations, Mar. 28. The United Nations Security Cancil is to meet marrow afternoon to resume discussion on the Israti-pgypt dispute. It will debate in particular the clash between Israeli and Egypt ian forces at Gaza on February

28.-Franco-Presse,

By Lee Falk and 'Phil Davis

|I SAW IT-1}{| NO ONE ELSE WILL,

STILL DON'T EITHER. BUT SOME DAY BELIEVE IT? WE WILL PAY TREMİ AVISIT?

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By Ernie Bushmiller

By Frank Robbing

WHILE UPSTURS in

WELL WHY DOESN'T THE PARAKEET" "TALK? IT KAD BETTER BAY SOMETHING SOON. FOR

YOUR JAKE!

acts, revolutionary decisions, and decree laws which are all valid today. Interspersed, there are provisions which are often irrelevant to the context of legislative measures and in thet, no ens can know for certain what is in effect and what is not."

In Justinian's

time,

the Byzantine Empire was faced with a similar situation. No оде knew for sure which laws were in force, whether it was the jus," the official initial text of the laws, "legas," issued by the various Emperors, or the local laws of conquered national groups,

20

TALK

ABOUT * MAGIC!

of Salonika is faced with a tisk incomparably znore difficult than that of his Byzantine col leagues.

of.

INCREASING PACE According to the estimates letal experts since Greece's Liberation freers Turkish rule in 1821, the law-making

machine

Government has been oper aling at an ever increasing Pace-

Greg the 20 years' rule of

of

Brst King, Prince Otto Bavaria, laws were issued at the rate of 50 a year.

From King Otto's abdication in 1862 to the beginning of World War laws were issued at the rate

year

of 80. a the subsequent

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Just before World War II, the had reached the 500 matrit, and annuel output of laws in Greece

during the war, the all- high record of 1,200 laws in a year was reached. Official statistics show that some 23,000 laws, many of which contain contradictory clausus, are valid today.

"The Government," Marshal Papagos stated, "cannot remain indifferent to this confused situation, which is to the ad- vantage only of bad citizens and perhaps also of a small number of unworthy officials who have the monopoly of the knowledge of this tortuous.

It legislation

my ambition to see

is thereon simplifted as soon

the

es possible and made accessible to the citizens."

one

Professor Vallindas, who considered of Greeca's top- most legal experts, is canadent that be Will be able to tasty out successfully Field Marshal Papagos briet and provide the country with & codification its laws

tion

"A similar, general codifica

Professor Vallincias said "has been carried out so far only

in the United States. Greece, therefore, whenits codes

are completed will be unique in this respect among European nations.

Professor Vallindas has pre- vious experience at code-making for he helped to draft Greece's new "civil code" which has been in force since 1941, In addition, he

during the last eight preliminary

months concation of the

work for the laws of the Ministry of Finance. Under his supervision, some 140 civil servants belonging to that

· Ministry · are already engaged in the task of correcting all laws: relevant to the country's finance, taxation, custom duties, and so

· DRAFT CODES "We had to start with the compilation of a collection of all laws before. drafting the codes," Professor Val- Undas explained.

It is hoped that similar col- lections of existing laws will be completed by all Ministries within a year.

When this has been done, the work of sorting them out and codifying them will have to be

its

mited by competent com

branch of

be

of:

"Government,

according to the Gov-

codes will

∙lamed as a whole by Par-

under a special, rapid

for provided

procedure

in

Greece's Constituti

As from the date of the Issue

of the

new code Marshad Papagos has announced hot only the provisions contrary- the codes but also all thos which have not been include in

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