Word: papandreou
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Died. Archbishop Damaskinos (born Dimetrios Papandreou), 58, towering (6 ft. 4 in.) white-bearded Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church; after a heart attack; in Psychico, Greece. A onetime army private (in the 1912 Balkan War) an amateur wrestler, Damaskinos entered the priesthood in 1917, was elected Archbishop in 1938 but was exiled to a monastery by Dictator John Metaxas. He returned as Archbishop three years later, vigorously opposed the Nazi-led occupation (he sheltered Athens' Jews, offered himself as a hostage, went to the Germans carrying a rope and dared them to hang him). As regent...
Andreas George Papandreou, instructor in Economics, whose father's resignation from the Tsaldaris cabinet on Saturday overturned the Greek government, in an interview last night called forthright action by the United States--"forgetting formalities"--the key to Greek stability...
...year-old. Papandreou has not seen his father, George Papandreou, erstwhile Minister of the Interior, since leaving Greece in 1940, but says he saw the present crisis coming from "a very good correspondence" he had kept up with his father...
Citing the Tsaldaris-led Populist government as "certainly not representative" under the meaning of the Marshall plan, Papandreou urged that the United States, whose presence minimizes the possibility of violent revolution, go ahead and decide the composition of a suitable government and then act to insure that such a government be established...
...Papandreou arrived in the United States in October of 1940 to attend the Graduate School here and was married shortly thereafter. Two years later he became a teaching fellow in Economics and just before he entered the Navy was appointed an instructor in the same subject. His two and a half years in the Navy he describes as uneventful...