The Nome daily nugget., 1935-12-02

self appointed field marshal.
 Short of ammunition and not sut- ficiently protected against the cold weather, the Macedonians and Thracians were stopped by the heavy artillery and machine guns of General Kondylis along the banks of the Struma river. When the revolution was only eleven days old they were completely routed and their officers left in flight, for the larger part on foot, across the border to Bulgaria.
 "curtain" for Venizelos.
 At sea, the Venizelists lost be- cause the government had airplanes and they had none. Bombs brought about the surrender of the Averoff and Helle, the two warships which the revolutionists had confiscated.
 VenizelOs himself had planned the revolution as bloodless one, hoping to take the government by bluff, surprise and confusing speed of action. He did not want civil war. With all of the shells that were fired and the bombs dropped, only 100 lives were lost. In fatali- ties it was just another banana war.
 In Greek political history it was highly important. It marked the end of Venizelos' real power. He has had to flee from his country, where a reward of $9,500 awaits any man who will assassinate him. He went first to Kosos, then to Rhodes, later on to Paris.
 Most of Venizelos' financial aid came from the $15,000000 fortune of his second wife. Now the Greek government has sealed seven of their houses, one of which is in Athens and is reported to have a library worth $5,000,OOO, prepara- tory to confiscation.
 Political factions in Greece are at present trying to estimate the comparative strengths of the repub- licans and monarchists at the polls. In an election last June, Tsaldaris retained his office and his ticket won 2S7 out of a possible 300 seats in the chamber of deputies, which Is the only legislative body in Greece now, the senate created by venizelos having been abolished some time ago.
 Royalist Strength Hidden. While the Tsaldaris ticket Is claimed to be neutral 1t is known that the premier is mild royalist, and the contention is that the 6S5,- 673 votes which it pulled from the 1,074,422 cast in June were in large part those of royalists who were banking upon the govern ments promise to conduct the plebiscite in fair and orderly fashion in September.
 A rather liberal estimate claims that 170,0OO Greeks, mostly Veni- zelist supporters, stayed away from the polls and that this bloc will be enough to beat the monarchy. An interesting sidelight on the election was the fact that there were 94, 40 votes cast for the Communist party, more than ever before.
 Tsaldaris recommends the draft ing of a new document that will not be so uncompromising that it has | to be thrown aside by revolutionary methods every few years. It seeks a better balance between legislative and executive power. None of the | commission for revision favOrs an absolute dictatorship as method of relieving the chief executive from the hamstringing of the cham Der of deputies, but all of them be- lieve he should be given stronger veto power and the power to set aside certain provisions of the con- stitution during times of extreme emergency.
 The United States has what is generally called presidential re- | public" France has "parliamen- tary republic" What Greece wants is sort of happy medium between the two.
 Greek presidents today have vir- tually no power at all. The present ones name is Alexander Zaimis. You've probably never heard of him.