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UNDERSTANDING GREECE

Athens, June 18—Mr. Andreas Papandreou, the Greek-American who aspired to govern Greece but ended up in the can on April 21, 1967, has leveled many charges against the revolutionary government, now that he has been released and is free to urge his case in the forums of the world, one of them that the government is composed of half-literates who have no ideas about anything, and, if they did, wouldn’t know how to express them. An American seeking quick information about the Greek situation is likely to agree with Mr. Papandreou on this point after perusing the Government’s principal English hand-out, a four-color 150-page Life-sized booklet entitled, “Why Did the Revolution of April 21, 1967 Take Place.” It is unquestionably the single most illiterate and incompetent apologia in the history of polemical literature.

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William F. Buckley Jr.

William F. Buckley Jr. founded National Review magazine in 1955.

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UNDERSTANDING GREECE

Athens, June 18—Mr. Andreas Papandreou, the Greek-American who aspired to govern Greece but ended up in the can on April 21, 1967, has leveled many charges against the revolutionary government, now that he has been released and is free to urge his case in the forums of the world, one of them that the government is composed of half-literates who have no ideas about anything, and, if they did, wouldn’t know how to express them. An American seeking quick information about the Greek situation is likely to agree with Mr. Papandreou on this point after perusing the Government’s principal English hand-out, a four-color 150-page Life-sized booklet entitled, “Why Did the Revolution of April 21, 1967 Take Place.” It is unquestionably the single most illiterate and incompetent apologia in the history of polemical literature.