FAMOUS PEOPLE

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3247, 2 April 1943, Page 6

FAMOUS PEOPLE

GREEK PRIME MINISTER - EMMANUEL L. TSOUDEROS FORMERLY A REPUBLICAN M. Emmanuel L. Tsouderos, Greek Prime Minister, is seen in the accompanying* block broadcasting from the British Broadcasting Corporation in London. He has accompanied. King George of Greece (who is thought to. hold the record for the war for air travel by a king) on many of his flying visits: from Britain to Egypt and Palestine; back across Africa to Lagos whence he flew to Washington and Canada and returning (several weeks ago) via the U.S.A, to Britain —over 22,000 miles altogether. . M. Tsouderos was formerly a Republican. But, in a book containing his speeches and broadcasts to the Greek Nation and to the Army between April 21, 1941 and May 5, 1942, he relates, in a foreword, how he was summoned, on April 20, by King George 11., to accept the Premiership and did so without hesitation: “I went to the palace at two o’clock in the afternoon and agreed quickly, as was my duty towards my country and towards the King, whom I was striving by all ways and means to save Greece. In the face of this honest and gallant King, I saw Greece speaking to me.”