Monday, Jun. 18, 1934
Munitions Dislocation
Six hundred million drachmas ($5,700,-000) is a lot of money to Greeks. To get it from the Chamber of Deputies and "to spend this huge but necessary sum for munitions" was the program last week of gruff General George Kondylis, Minister of War. With a pack of Deputies who would stop at nothing to back him up. Genera! Kondylis strutted into the hall and Zing!--a chair hurtled clear across the Chamber at Alexander Papanastasiou, leader of the Opposition. M. Papanastasiou, an artful dodger, was not hurt until he threw the chair back at the Government with such violence that he dislocated his right shoulder. Grimacing with pain, he left the Chamber and announced that the entire Opposition would stay out on a protest strike against General Kondylis' ambition to buy 600 million drachmas worth of munitions at a time when Greece faces no threat of
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