European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 16, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday 16, 196 the stars and stripes Page f f. Iii my or. Junta s English apologia is greek to me Akin vac. Paa4hldreolf 1n6 Ino selection of . Tho in Gllnn Ida Era Rau tent mrs 44. 0��%m�j lit trim Penn can to Infin nil. Andreas a and Reni greek american who aspired o Lern Greece but need up in Fth can on april 21, 1967, has coiled Many charges against Tho revolutionary government now thai he has been released and is from to urge his ease in the of Rumi of the world one of them hot he government is composed of half literates who have no ideas about anything and if they did would t know How to express them. An american seeking Quick in formation about the greek Situa Tion is Likely to agree with or. Papandreou on this Point after perusing that government s Prin Cipal English handout a four color 150-Page life sized Booklet entitled Why did the revolution of april 21, 1967 take place it it unquestionably the single most illiterate and incompetent apologia in the history of Pouvi Cal literature. The introduction gets us off at print Speed into syntactical an Archy the collection of facts selection of photographs e redaction of the text the paging and the general constant attend Ance of the present edition was realized. Under the general superintendence of the director or. P. A. the message to the greek peo ple issued by the revolutionary government on april 21 is Ren dered in such language As we belong to the labor class and we will stand our poor greek Broth ers the revolution was bloodless we Are proudly told but even so it immobilized All the politicians those incapable impudent sic betrayers and sweaters sic greek politicians the communists and those who had changed the House of ses Sions to a Bawdy House from where the Brave greek people the heroes of 1940 and of the communist Cal defeat of 1944, had to take lessons of falsehood perjury forgery speculation and the Book is chock full of de tailed charts and graphs illustrating the pre revolutionary chaos e.g., on Page 17, what amount of Money the action of . The communists costed in Greece i.e., the alleged value of the property destroyed during the civil wars of 1944-1947on Over p.95 to a numeral plan of strikes 1963-1967," which shows that whereas there were 25 or 30 strikes during a typical month in pre Junta Greece there were none in the months follow ing the revolution which is an achievement in the Field of labor relations equal to that of the so Viet Union a Point the editor of this mortifying volume probably would not understand. It is fortunate for or. Papadakis that the Junta is committed to bloodless Ness. What is disappointing about the performance of the Junta in t its ineptitude As such but its ineptitude in the Light of the Case that can be made for it a Case which in my judgment prevails Over the Case that can be made against it. Rich politicos Don t play Ball Henry j. Taylor by entering South Dakota sen. George s. Mcgovern in the presidential sweepstakes to pro vide a rallying Point for the Fol Lowers of the late sen. Robert f. Kennedy the Kennedy forces further Divide the democratic party. Yet without team play and Unity where can the late Sena Tor s party go except toward de defeat new York gov. Nelson a. Rockefeller s Miami Beach and pre convention behaviour seemed sadly cast in the same Mold. Unjustly or not Rockefeller gave you the feeling that if he did t like the Way the game was go ing he would pick up the Bat and Ball and go Home. Kennedy did not strengthen the democratic party in new York state. During his tenure it was t notably vigorous. The party actually lost 83,904 demo cratic registrants last year lost the vital new York City mayoralty in 1965 and in 1966 lost what appeared to be an excellent Chance to seize the governorship no Urchin. From Rockefeller. Now with Kennedy gone for Fth first time in decades the democratic party finds itself with out a single top political office in the state. The state committee has survived on a shoestring and largely because of financial port directly from personal Kennedy coffers. This is also gone. Rockefeller in turn has not lengthened the Republican party in the state. He has been holds the actual balance of Power throughout much of the electorate. When men of very very Large inherited wealth go into politics they Are usually hard to pin Down like a wayward Seal that jumps the tank. Such a Man is fundamentally out of his ele ment As just one of the and he is Seldom if Ever conservative although millions re Gard him As conservative merely because he is Rich. You would be hard pressed to name a single american politician of great inherited wealth throughout the past 37 years who was or is a conservative. Super Rich son Marshall Field ii poured much of his father s for tune into the Long defunct new York newspaper pm. It was widely called the Uptown daily worker so similar was it to the communist party s official rag. Henry a. Wallace so exuberantly progressive that the democratic party refused to re nominate him for vice president was the son of one of the richest men in Iowa. The list is Long. Franklin d. Roosevelt himself was Why this undeniable pattern exists is a knotty psychological Riddle but for one thing the life of any very very Rich Man s son seems to Lack Normal vitalizing suspense. He s sure to get ahead. He s deprived of the earthy need to test himself on his own. In Wardly some such men seem on the defensive. When a Rich Man of inherited wealth sitting on a matterhorn of inherited Money becomes a political Man he has Seldom had much practice in team play. He has never had to be a team player to get ahead. Very humanly rationalizations occur in which team play has Little or no part if his own plans Are defied and Defeated. The voids in his life Are filled instead by his personal urges a yearning for Independent Power appreciation self expression and personal acclaim by Ordinary folks beyond his inherited wealth All wrapped up in a warm feeling of service but lethal on those political rivals who must depend upon him As a team player in their party. The Kennedy and Rockefeller followers alike can now serve Best As team players in their parties and thus As helpers not wreckers of the two party sys tem that is so essential in the government of the United states. Sci United fed Tuie syndic he or. Papadopoulos the prime minister is among the half literates to whom or. Papandreou who took a . In economics at Harvard and went on to become chairman of the department of economics at the University of California in Ber Keley alludes he has written no books or monographs or Magazine articles. Yet the for Mer colonel is a quite spectacular performer under pressure to which unlike the unfortunate scholar demagogue Papandreou he does not tend to yield. The foreign minister or. Panayotis Pipi Nelis studied Law and political science at Zurich and Freiburg was himself prime min ister during a Short period in 1963, and has been writing books since 1920. Four months before the coup or. Pipi Nelis warned his fellow democrats in the general Assembly that democracy As it was being prac tired in Greece was leading to chaos. The minister of education or. Theophyla tos Pap Constantinou translated into greek Many of the works of Karl Marx Sigmund Freud Andre Gide and Sidney Hook and his study of communism dates Back seven books ago to his falsifications of marxism in Greece published in 1931. The Junta is not surrounded by illiterates but by men some of them deeply Learned like Pipi Nelis and Pap Constantinou All of them confirmed in the belief that if the Junta had not acted the scheduled elections of May 1967, would have propelled Greece into another hideous civil War the third in 25 years that the aging Papandreou opportunist and demagogue would yield control of the Center Union party to his son the scholar who once styled himself As a Cross Between Castro and Nasser which even the imagination that contrived Cyclops Medusa and cerberus could not imagine As chief of the grecian state. 1c Washngton Star Syndicate inc. The High Way men gop demo spotlights turn on Wallace the Central figure of both presidential conventions did t appear at the Republican and won t appear at the democratic. George Wallace is nevertheless in different ways the preoccupation 9ov�rnor for a full 10 years. To of Boh. His election new York state the republicans Are Bent one to 26 republicans and 17 winning a number of deep Morats of the House of rep South and new South states tentative. Today new York away from the democrats with a 15 republicans and 26 out letting them � washl"9��n moan go to Wallace the conservative party has and also on get stain born in new York of n 9 � f a but a grown until it now Max Lerner this of Vanunen streets votes from Northern Whites to counteract the negro defections. The democrats will doubtless answer this Wallace oriented strategy by an anti Wallace oriented strategy one that will charge the republicans As Wallace himself does with moving in the Wal lace direction and thus aim for the votes of moderates in both parties who Are concerned about violence but recoil from the Wallace Symbol. Thus the Little demagogue from Alabama has become the Center of attention of both major parties. In one respect Chicago will parallel Miami Beach there is unlikely to be any Surprise in the presidential nomination it self. I have Felt that a Nelson Rockefeller nomination would have helped Eugene Mccarthy at Chicago and that a Richard nomination would help Hubert Humphrey. I feel this More strongly than Ever. The re publicans took the Middle ground inside their own party Between Rockefeller and Reagan which Means right of Center in the nation at Large. The democrats will now take the Middle ground within their party which Means left of Center in the nation. Nixon and Humphrey have All along been part of each other s destiny. Humphrey breathed a sigh of Relief when Nixon was chosen and breathed a second one when Nixon chose Spiro a new. He now has a Clear path and also greater leeway on a running mate. There Are a number of commentator i respect especially James Wechsler who argue the opposite that the nomination of Nixon strengthens rather than weakens Mccarthy. One sees their Point that the of a Tweedledum tweedledee elec Tion Campaign with neither candidate representing the new politics or offering a Strong anti War stand will be intolerable to Many and will have to be reckoned with by the delegates. Yet the other analysis seems More persuasive. One might formulate a first Law of political dynamics mood determines strategy and strategy determines candidates. The mood of the nation is clearly shifting toward the Primacy of the Safe streets is be. La t
