Freedom Dead in Greece 
The Greek dictator does not, like 
the Italian dictator, talk about the 
more or less decomposed body of the 
Goddess of Liberty, but slain by his 
hand and under his heel freedom lies 
dead. For the “hereditary bonds¬ 
men” who fear to strike the blow 
there is a slave-driver who rules by 
armed force, and does not scruple 
to use that force for the killing of 
public men who stand for constitu¬ 
tional government in opposition to 
his military despotism. This Theo¬ 
dore Pangalos is the same person j 
who was president of the court-mar- 
tial which in September, 1922, ordered 
a firing squad to shoot M. Gouna^is, 
a former prime minister, another ex¬ 
premier, three other ministers and 
several generals, on the poor pre¬ 
tence that they were responsible'for 
the notorious stampede of the army 
by the Turks in Asia Minor. 
Is he aQout to pursue me same 
course with regard to former Pre : 
mier Papanastasian, former minister 
of the interior Gen. Kondylis and 
the ten other officers whom he ar¬ 
bitrarily arrested last Wednes day? 
In a speech he made at the time he 
I proclaimed his dictatorship he de¬ 
nounced not only M. Papanastasian, 
;j the first Republican premier, in 
1 whose cabinet Gen. Pangalos him- 
■ self had a place, but also former 
1 Permiers Kafnndaris and Michala- 
kopoulos. The, resignation of the 
| latter’s government he previously 
| forced by means of a hostile tnili- 
| tary demonstration. Those three 
I ex-premiers are respected political 
leaders. What is their offense? Wei 
know of none, unless it be that one 1 , 
or more of them have attributed to 
the aggressive policy of Pangalos , 
that bombardment of villages on the j 
Bulgarian frontier for which the j 
council of the League of Nations 
required Greece to pay compensation.; 
It is not improbable that the of- j 
fence for which Papanastasian is 
being punished is simply criticism 
of the dictatorship in his newspaper, 
Democratia, which consequently has 
been suspended. Pangalos seems in¬ 
clined to be comparatively merciful, 
for a time. He is not, at present, 
putting himself at the head of. a 
court-martial for the condemnation 
and execution of the former minis¬ 
ters. Being now the solo authority, 
not needing to use any kind of court 
or any form of trial, he just orders 
the banishment of Papanastasian to 
the small island of Anaphi on *o 
most distant edge of the Cyclades, 
and the deportation of Gen- Kondy¬ 
lis and the rest of the prisoners to 
other places far from Athens. _The 
situation of the Hellenic republic is 
ignominious and pitiable. A true 
national spirit must be born if 
Greece is to be more than the “sad 
relic of departed worth’A / / 
