"Venizelos Crisis"

The Cabinet provisionally assembled, last fortnight, under General John Metaxas (Royalist), was hastily supplanted, last week, by one more Coalition Government under veteran Prime Minister Alexander Zaimis.

Thus ended the most recent "Venizelos Crisis" (TIME, June 4), dramatically precipitated by the sudden emergence from retirement of famed Eleutheris Venizelos, mighty Elder Statesman. Upon resuming his leadership of the Liberal Party, M. Venizelos was understood to have demanded the Prime Ministry for himself; but last week he agreed to support the return to that office of his fellow Liberal, present Prime Minister Alexander Zaimis.

To correspondents who hastened to Athens at news of M. Venizelos' political renaissance, he said: "The royalist press continues to declare that King George II [now a Rumanian resident] will come back. That is why I have come back. . . . The Liberal Party must not be allowed to disintegrate. . . . We must not relax our vigilant purpose to maintain the Republic."