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Field Marshal's Health
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Athens, May 11.
The recent visit to Switzerland of the 72-year-old Greek Prime Minister Field Marshal Alexander Papagos for a medical examination was noted by Greeks with some concern.
Although the examination was purely precautionary and it was stated at the time that his general health was satisfactory, his supporters were very conscious of the fact if he was to withdraw from the political scene before the end of his Administration's four-year term, either for ill-health or for other reasons, Greece might be faced with a serious poli- tical crisis.
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Births, Deaths, Marriages,ters fear that should he give King Paul made a supreme up leadership, the Greek Rally, attempt to bring together Field which is an amalgamation of Marshal Papagos and the leader small political groups, might of Liberal Groups of Parliament. be split and so lose.
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PLACE IN HISTORY
Field Marshal Papagonis one of the very few men who has found a place in the history of Greece, both as a distinguished soldier and a statesman.
National
Stubbornly Papagos ignored the King's appeal asking re-
fresh peatedly for
elections majority under the
system, which, he hoped, would secure his accession to Parliament.
to
A year taler fresh elections under the majority system were He wor two victories for held and in November 1952, the Greece on the battlefields and Greek Rally was returned when he entered the political Parliament with 240 seats out arena in 1951 he secured tor of 300, All opposition was de- his country Government fcated. Not a single Commun-
which
was much ist was returned.
stability, nended,
His name will be recorded in history as the commander who
At last Field Marshal Papagos and his associates bad challenged control of the Ad-
un-
in 1940-41 defeated Mussolini's ministration. Around them a
was
The Greek budget for the first time since the war balanced, in spite of the heaviest ever defence expenditure.
'In the military sphere. Papagos Administration gained membership of the North Altantic Treaty Organisation, granted military facilities and bases to United States Forces, signed the Balkan Pact of Ankara and the Bled Alliance with Turkey and Yugoslavia.
RELATIONS RESTOŘED
Diplomatic relations with Cominform-controlled coun- tries were restored, giving Greece an important out. let for her unsold agricul- turaX products, and abducted children and hortages
from behind the Iron Curtain were returned to Greece.
power,
Chief Justice
Appointed
Men of the US Navy seen at the diving station of the USS Nautilus, in the control FOONL Lieut (JE) David. Bayd is passing a word on the
annaunetik reneral aystem (right) while Robert B. Dunn (left) Chier elec. tristan's London May 11. The Queen has approved the appointment of Sir Peter Bell. Chief Justice, British Guiana, to be Chief Justice in Northern Rhodesia
will be succeeded as Chiet He Justice in British Gulana by Mr
F.
W Helder the
Attorney-General
present
divisions in Albania while they | team of young ministers launched despite a serious breach in the Islands public service avie, after
elaborate
reforms.
were attempting to
invade an Greece
who and
in 1943 crushed the Communist rebel- Bon which was attempting to The inflated draw Greece behind the Iron
programme
01
Rally
prepares" to of the special ballast tacks.
Тве
USS Nautilus the world's first
nuclear powered submarine- and this is one of the first Inside pictures of the sub- marine released by the US “Navy-Express Photo.
Louisville, May 11.
to a
A 34-year-old mare gave birth colt last Saturday, her owner announced here,
INSIDE THE
NAUTILUS
Blank
S. African Move To Pack Senate
Capetown, May 11. The Nationalist Govern ment tonight introduced a Bill to dissolve and recón. stitute the Senate with al- most double- it's present membership, giving the Gov ernment just over a two- thirds majority in any joint session of both Houses,
This would enable a joint session of the Senate and Lower House to pass legislation taking... coloured voters of mixed race of the common electoral rolls.
The House of Assembly (lower house) gave the Govern ment leave to introduce the Bill by 82 votes to 53 after three- hour debate, in which the Nationalists were accused of attempting to pack the Senate. to circumven't the Constitution.
89 MEMBERS
Under the Bill. published to- night, the Senate would have 89 members instead of the pre- sent 48.
wp-
The Governor-General's pointments
of senators" are 18 and a Introduced for
raised from eight to
*
new basis Bans
Press
Bonn, May 11. Herr Theodor Blank West German Defence Commissjoner who is expected to assume the office of Defence Minister when the post is created, has person- ally issued orders banning the
Press from the first training plane test flights for the future West German Air Force. Defence Office source said to- day.
The planes are being de monstrated at the NATO air base of Noervenich, near the German-Dutch border.
election of senators by pro- vinces where
a majority vote will apply in electoral colleges instead of proportional repre- sentation as at present
Cape Province, the Transvaal and Orange Free State will thereby return only Govern- ment senators since the Na- tionalist Party controls these three of South Africa's four Provine OPPONENTS
The new Senate would have 77 Government supporters and only 12 opposition senators. Un- der the BILL the Government would. secure a probable overall majority of five or
six in a joint ression
returns
Each province now eight senators. With the new Bill each province would re- It was suggested in the GET-
turn
a number of genators. MJD Press that former "It was a miracle," said the Lieutenant-General Adolf Gal national and provincial election equal, to one-fifth of its total
constituencies.--Reuter,
Sir Edward B
Bell, who was $3 yesterday, was born in St Kitts, Leeward Islands, studied law in NEVER TOO OLD After two years of
London, entered Leerde
the Leeward monolithic unity of the Greek becoming Attorney-General of
was trans St Lucia in 1935, through the resignation Greek currency from the Party and the Gover-
ferred to Palestine, Malta [es was devaluated by 50 per cent, ment of Mr Merkezinis and 23 Legal Secretary)
and Malaya Solicitor-General Curtain.
(23 all restrictions on the freedom of other deputies. Field Marshal
in 1946). He
Puisne Judge m Field Marshal Papagos was trade were lifted, an ambillous Papagos born in Athens
move the Tanganyika, when he was trans- owner, Mr J. C. Wheeler. It's land, the leading candidate for on December reconstruction programme was mands more than two-thirds of
to British Guiana.
unusual for a horse to live that the post of chief of the future 9. 1883, the son
ferred roads of a cavalry drafted.
and highways the seats in Parliament, And officer.
reconstructed, land re- his Cabinet by staying in power bados and is in his 58th year,
Mr Holder was bom in Bar- lang, much less have a colt" Air Force, would pilot some of He
clamation works were started, an for more than two
the planes at Noervenich years has He practised law in tris native endeavour was made to promote beaten the
record of all the island, became Solicitor General tourism and to narrow the gap postwar" Greek Governments- of Greece's balance of payments, Chine Mail Special.
and went to British Guiana in 1942. China Mail Special.. ..
started his military carcer 35 a Second Lieutenant in 1906, and in 1949 he was granted the unique rank of Feld Marshal of Greece in re- cognition of his outstanding services to the nation.
of
During his · 43 years devoted service to his country, he has twice been Commander- in-Chief of the Greek Armed Forces, once throughout the Greek-Italian War of 1940-41, and from January 1949 when was recalled to, active with the service Communists.
He relinquished this post in May 1051.
The
to
deal
WAR MINISTER-
During his career he also has been called upon twice to serve as Minister of War -In 1935 and 1936,
In April
1941, when the Wehrmacht invaded Grecce, General Papagos,
thea of the Greek Armed Forces, quit his command and stayed in the country. In July 1943, he was arrested by the German cupation authorities and was subsequently in the concentra- tion camps "ot Orianicmburg. Flossemburg, Dachau, aand Nienderdorf. He was liberated. by the 5th American Army in May 1945.
Commander-in-Chief
oc-
On his return to Greece King George appointed him Grand Chamberlain of the Royal Court. "In 1949, at the peak of the Communist rebellion, he was given full powers by, the Government of the Liberal leader, the late Mr Themistocles Sophoulis, to direct military operations against the Com- munist. guerillas,
Slim, handsome, bald, with a bourbonian Dose over his grey moustache, with brown staring Field Marshal Papagos cyes, has a personal charm.
Covered with glory and con- sidered as Greece's hero No, 1, he could have rested on his laurels after his brilliant career as a soldier. But Greece in 1951 was suffering from an alarming political crisis.
CHALLENGE
Although he was then
During the
70 years old, the Field -- Marshal decided to challenge
the old-fashioned political. Parties and bid for a strong Cabinet
might of July 31; 1951, 1 few hours after
King Paul hud signed a direc dissolving
Parliament, F3
Field Marshal. Papagos summoned representatives of the Press to his unpretentious country house, at kalf, near
Athens and gave them a handwritten statement which at first glande resembled an army Order of
the Daydatement Papagos
In
dramatically announced to the
Greek people his decision to
enter
politics add stand for election as head of the Greek' Rally-act-a-party, but a Free Ambulance Service for dationer movement to redeem
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At the 1951 the Greek Rally, refurned 1:14 seats in the new House, the largest number of any poster, but not enough to constitute a
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Tokyo, May 12. A long, rolling earthquake struck Tokyo early today at 12.50 am. Buildings shook to
for over a minute.
The Central Weather Bureau located the epicentre in the Pacific Ocean about 50 miles southeast of Tokyo. It classified the quake as "weak," and said that there were no reports of
rocked
Central. Ecuador was
among the
tion
of
Quito,
the
today by an earthquake which toppled church spires, cracked walls, and caused panic
the population. Early reports made no men capraltiesty,
capital city was shaken by a strong oscilatory trenor, at
11.04
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