Volume 28, Number 15 · October 8, 1981
Greece Against Itself
By Peter Green
BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mediaeval Greece
by Nicolas Cheetham
Yale University Press, 344 pp., $27.50
A Short History of Modern Greece
by Richard Clogg
Cambridge University Press, 242 pp., $8.95 (paper)
Ephesus After Antiquity: A Late Antique, Byzantine and Turkish City
by Clive Foss
Cambridge University Press, 218 pp., $34.50
Ambassador MacVeagh Reports: Greece 1933-1947
edited by John O. latrides
Princeton University Press, 769 pp., $35.00
The Origins of the Cold War in the Near East: Great Power Conflict and Diplomacy in Iran, Turkey, and Greece
by Bruce R. Kuniholm
Princeton University Press, 512 pp., $12.50 (paper)
The Greek World
by Eliot Porter, with a text by Peter Levi
E.P. Dutton, 144 pp., $45.00
The Greek Upheaval: Kings, Demagogues and Bayonets
by Taki Theodoracopulos
Caratzas Brothers Publishers (New Rochelle), 262 pp., $12.50
The Struggle for Greece 1941-1949
by C.M. Woodhouse
Beekman Publishers (Woodstock, New York), 324 pp., $29.95
To a chorus of political mudslinging and inflammatory editorials provided by Athens's volatile daily press, Greece is moving toward a fall election between the two perennial elements of Hellenic society—the conservative-authoritarian and the demagogic-liberal. On the right, George Rallis, the incumbent premier, has been the leader of Constantine Karamanlis's New Democracy party ever since Karamanlis himself was, by the narrowest of squeaks, elevated from the premiership to the presidency in 1979. As long ago as the summer of 1975 the opposition had predicted this move, if ever Karamanlis were to feel his political base threatened,[1] and the prediction came true, with Rallis playing Pompidou to Karamanlis's de Gaulle.
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