Gifted Greek: The Enigma of Andreas Papandreou by Monteagle Stearns

Author:Monteagle Stearns [Stearns, Monteagle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Greece, Presidents & Heads of State, European, Europe, Biography & Autobiography, Political Science, World, History, Politics
ISBN: 9781640124233
Google: OVwJEAAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 52880165
Publisher: Potomac Books
Published: 2021-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

The officer adds that “[Andreas] kind of muffled his attacks on the U.S. . . . it may have been that he hadn’t reached the point to make an outright attack [on it].”

The irony of the embassy’s reluctance to accept George Papandreou’s accusations stemmed not only from his well-earned reputation for hyperbole but also from our decision not to send observers to polling stations on election day, precisely to avoid any charges of interference. We were left to investigate the contested figures after the fact; subsequently, in an evaluation that I drafted for the State Department, we acknowledged obvious manipulation of the military vote and examples of intimidation at certain polling stations but not widespread fraud in Athens. The dispatch went on to say:

The Center Union, under the purple banner of Papandreou’s oratory, has ridden off in all directions and in so doing has created much confusion about the real issues raised by the attack on the election results. These issues do not, as the Center Union would have us believe, pose the question, “who should govern Greece?” They do, however, raise important questions about the way Greece should be governed. . . . No serious observer of the Greek political scene believes that Papandreou and his ill-assorted coalition command as much popular confidence as Karamanlis. Many people do believe, however, that the Palace, the Army leadership and the internal security forces intervene too much in the political life of Greece and that the sluggishness of government administration, its apparent unresponsiveness to individual needs, has created a potentially dangerous gap between the governing class and the governed. . . . Greece, it is often said, is in mid-passage, but the phrase is usually used to describe a stage in the country’s economic development. It is less widely understood that Greece is also in mid-passage socially and politically.

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