Metaxas Dictates

In Athens a closely guarded limousine swept up to the British Legation and instalked stocky General John M'etaxas, the new Dictator (TIME, Aug. 17). A second car brought King Edward VIII. Over cups of tea the two men talked earnestly for more than two hours. That night Edward and his pleasure-cruising friends were up until 3 a. m. dancing in a simple tavern and open-air cabaret, near Athens.

Next thing Greeks knew their Dictator gave out a long statement in which for the first time he announced that he will "never" hold elections for another Greek parliament. General Metaxas said' last week that the Socialist & Communist trade unions which he has done his best to smash "will no longer be tolerated" and that the State will set up a paternal form of worker organization.

''I have the King's approval for all these plans," added Dictator Metaxas--by which he was assumed to mean the approval of King George II of Greece, a most intimate friend of Britain's late King George V, and an attentive host to King Edward VIII.

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