The Washington Merry-Go-Round
THE WASHINGTON POST
Monday, May 1, 1967
D
U.S. Couple Accused in Greek Coup
a member of the Greek Cabi- Turkey, on both sides of the "First you say the
By. Drew Pearson
Communet, and, together with his fa- Bosporus, key entrance to the nists are our enemies.
now
An American girl born in ther, set up the first liberal Soviet Union
and
the
Black
you
say
we've
got
to make
Elmhurst, Ill., and her hus- Greek government since the Sea.
friends
with
the
Communists
.
band, former head of the eco- war.
nomics department at the Today Andreas is charged Nothing could be a worse How am I going to sell my
birthday present for Harry Parliament on a big army
University of
with treason by the military Truman, who
reaches his 83d when you say there is no longCalifornia, are
dictatorship ruling Greece, birthday in about
a week, than er danger from communism?
the center of a
while Margaret some time ago the blow to democracy
which Karamanlis, an efficient,
storm in Athwas given a five-hour grilling has just been
struck in pro-American , governed
ens which has
before a military tribunal Greece.
Greece for eight years .Since
already negatwithout the right of counsel or
Part of the problem, how- he bowed out there has been
ed the Truman
a translator.
political uncertainty. Part of
Doctrine, overThe accusation against her ever lies at his door. Under the it has been
due to Central Inturned demowas that she was the real head Truman Doctrine the United telligence.
cracy in the
of Aspida, Greek for "shield," States immediately began Ellis Briggs,
U.S. Ambassabirthplace of
a liberal group of army offi- building up Greek military dor who
served in Greece durdemocracy,
strength, ignoring political
cers
which
was
charged
with
Pearson
ing the Karamanlis days, has
and raised a
conspiring against the old and social, reform. Jack Peuriquestion mark regarding the monarchist clique in the army. foy, U.S. Ambassador to written a book In which he
Johnson Administration's poli- All sorts of priminent lead- Greece under Mr. Truman, bluntly states that he never
knew what Central Intelcy toward dictatorships.
ers, ranging from Willy boasted to me when I visited ligence
was doing and that the
The State Department has Brandt, foreign minister
Athens in 1951 that he had 30
of
CIA
men had more money to
been very reluctant to speak West Germany, to Dr. Walter Greek army divisions ready to
spend
that
the American Emout tn condemnation of the Heller, former head of the come to the support of the
bassy. Other observers have
only military dictatorship set President's Economic Council United States.
up in Europe since Franco and former professor at the Since then the United States noted that the CIA secretly inseized Spain over 30 years University of Minnesota, have
has poured $1,854,000,000 of tervened in Greek elcetions,
and
recently the CIA has
ago.
appealed to the White House military aid into Greece, all of beenmore
given some responsibility
The American, Margaret to help rescue Andrea Papan- it a gift.
Chant, studied at the Universi- dreou.
For a dozen years in Athens, for the military coup.
ty of Minnesota, where she The American Embassy has the Greek government operat- c 1967. Bell-McClure Syndicate. Inc.
met and married a young made representations, some ed on the philosophy that it
Greek-American, Andreas Pa- observers feel too timidly, to was a bulwark for the United
20-Year-Old Model
pandreou, who became an eco- permit Andreas to come
back States against eastern communomics professor. Together and teach in an
nism. Then, in 1959, the Unit- Named Miss England
American
they organized the first Arita' university.
ed States under President
Stevenson-for President Club
Eisenhower changed the sig- LONDON, April 29 (AP)—
at the university. Papandreou Truman's Birthday
nals. He met with Khrushchev Jennifer Lewis, a 20-year-old
later went on to become ecoat Camp David and launched brunette professional model,
nomies head at the University Present
a policy of coexistence and defeated 32 other beauty conof California and later went Meanwhile the trouble in better understanding with testants last night to become
back to help his father when Greece goes much deeper Moscow.
Miss England 1967.
the latter became Prime Minis- than the plight of this Ameri- Two months later, when I Jennifer will compete the
ter of Greece. Margaret went can couple. It could jeopard- lunched with Premier Kara- Miss Europe contest inin
Nice
with him.
ize the entire Truman Doc- mantis beside the Aegean out- at the end of
and in the
Andreas renounced his trine, which was aimed at side Athens, he complained Miss UniverseMay
contest at MiAmerican citizenship, became keeping friendly Greece and bitterly:
ami, Fla., in July.