Georgios Papandreou

Georgios Papandreou

Georgios Papandreou (13 February 1888 – 1 November 1968) was a Greek politician, the founder of the Papandreou political dynasty. He served three terms as prime minister of Greece (1944–1945, 1963, 1964–1965). He was also deputy prime minister from 1950–1952 and served numerous times as a cabinet minister, starting in 1923, in a political career that spanned more than five decades. He was the founder of the Center Union and father of Andreas Papandreou.

Quotes

• They [the Communist Party] ask to surrender Greece. We refuse. Our aim is to subject the parties to the Nation and not the opposite.
  • From his "speech to the nation", after the Lebanon Conference in May 1944.

• In a Constitutional Monarchy, the Government governs and the King reigns.
  • During the political crisis of 1965.

• He was glorified while in hiding, but vanished when he appeared in public.
  • About Georgios Grivas, leader of the EOKA's struggle in Cyprus.
  • Draenos, Stan (2012) (in en). Andreas Papandreou: The Making of a Greek Democrat and Political Maverick. New York: I. B. Tauris. p. 88. ISBN 978-1780760803. 

• Think, Andreas, if you die in America, how many people will come to your funeral? Then think how many will follow your casket in Athens if you stay.
  • One of the last Georgios Papandreou's arguments in persuading his son, Andreas Papandreou, to stay in Greece and groom him as his successor and future prime minister.
  • Stearns, Monteagle (2021) (in en). The enigma of Andreas Papandreou. Sterling: Potomac Books. p. 49. ISBN 978-1640123298. 

• The Paraskevopoulos government was our last chance for avoiding a military take-over. With your [Andreas'] militant stand against it, with your strong statements against the King, with your distrust you instilled in the American contingent here, this became inevitable.
  • Georgios Papandreou blaming his son, Andreas Papandreou, for the Greek Junta.
  • Papandreou, Andreas (1971) (in en). Democracy at Gunpoint. New York: Deutsch. p. 24. 

External links

Encyclopedic article on Georgios Papandreou on Wikipedia