GREEK REGENT RESIGNS

Chronicle (Levin), 6 April 1946, Page 5

GREEK REGENT RESIGNS

| NEW CABINET SWORN IN Repeived Saturday 12.45 a.m. ATHENS, April 5. ; It is officia'lly announced that the | Jtagppt ( Arcb^isb9P Ham^skiiios) tend . ca^lV'U king .iySpn*'fast niglrfc immediatfe' iy ".a^r t^e "^pgent" 'ba't '.swpr p ' in the j new "Cabinet. ' " * • ! .The Assqcia,ted Press correspondent I ih Atheps says the Greek Government, i vifiahimqqsly recognising the necessity fqr Archbisb°P painaskinos rema,ining I in pfilce, will reqqmmsnd that the rei signatiop shouid nqt be acqepted. P.o.pulist and Centre B.'loc leaders agreed to the forpiatiop of a Coalition i Government, with Jrqdge Poulitzas as Prime Minister. The itpyalist leuder (Mr. Tsaldaris) Will be Minister of Foreign Akairs., Three deiitrist legders — JMte'ssrs George Fapandrequ, Pg^byatis CwnellQpqpi-S, 9,1^(1 Sqp.ocjbs -ye'ni^clps — wjiU be Mipist'qrs .wlth'qqt pqrtfo.^b. .O.ther Ministers inc^qde 'Messrs Jqhn TbSdfQkis (De.fpii'ce), aiid Fetros'.^avrp.fliiHailis, bP.tii Populists. ' Earlier it was reported that the PqpiUist Party -b.ad abaiidQupd tqe pian to hold an eai-ly picbiscite on the Mon archy, qiid had depi'de'd tp let thc 'new Parliaixient fix tbe c(ate. The new Greek Government is considered to represqnt a cpnsjderable con cqssiqn on the part of thp Populists, says Reuter's Atbeus cqrrespondent The Pqpu'iists' eieqtorql succeas generally is att'ributed to tbe popular be],iei that they intended .to bring back tbe King immed.iat'ely, but the bPW Farliamefi, rpbqtipg ob April 29, will det'erJmine tbe d'atp of thb plebiScite. Parliameut, it stated, .wili take ipto consicleration British^dyice. Tbe new Preinier (Julgp Po.iilitzas) is hqlding .pf^qe' lifttil tbe* chiefs pf ^be Topullst Party cgn meet in the next few weeks tp ,ele.pt a 'garty leader, who wifi ,take'.P,yer tbe Trebii^rship. Mr. Poiil^taas, who iias be.pn a Judge for 35 years, tpjld ppfresb'Qfideiits th'a,t he was reluctarit to accept tbe Premiership, and he agreed only because he felt he" would render service io Greece. The Liberals, led hy tbe'former Premie'r (Mr. Soufoulis) , forin the Opiiosition, and it is stated they are- deterWned"'fo figl^t for the pbstp,onepient" of tbe plebiscibe *^arcb7'ii9A3V which has heen adVocated, by "Britisb" offic'ial quarters.