Evening star., 1947-08-30
New TsaIdaris Cabinet
From His Own Party
Faces Early Collapse
All But One of Ten Greek
Ministers RoyoIists os
Coalition Efforts Fail
By the Associated Press

ATHENS, Aug. 30.-Greece had
government today for the first
time in a week, but the new cabi-
net, headed by Constantin Tsal-
daris and almost solidly Populist
(Royalist), seemed doomed to
early collapse.
The 10 ministers were sworn in by
Archbishop Damaskinos last night
at the palace of King Paul to
replace the coalition government OF
Populist Premier Demetrios Maxi
mos, which fell last Saturday with
the designations of three Centrist
cabinet members.
All except one belonged to the
Populist Party, led by Mr.. Tsaldaris.
The exception was an independent,
Admiral Alexander Sakellariou,
Minister of Supplies and Provisional
Minister of Merchant Marine. Mr..
Tsaldaris, becoming Premier, kept
the Foreign Ministry, which he had
held under Mr.. Maximos.
In a formal statement issued to-
day, Mr.. Tsaldaris said he still was
willing to negotiate with the opposi-
ton for broadened coalition
cabinet
Confidence Vote Doubtful.
Talks along that line this week
came to nothing. Some opposition
leaders have criticized Popllist Off
cials' conduct of the fight against
Communicated guerrillas in the
north.
Observers noted these weaknesses
in the new government:
% Even with the announced
support of Gen. Napoleon zervas'
Is Nationalists, the cabinet muster
only 166 of the 354 votes in Parlia-
ment and would be unable to win an
expression of confidence if the five
party opposition stood firm.
(2) A one-party government was
just the opposite of the expressed
desire of United States diplomats
in Greece, who had voiced the hope
that the government would be
broadened to take in parties on the
outside.
90 Mr.. Tsaldaris kept George
Stratos on as War Minister. The
three Centrists who quit Mr.. Maxi
mos cabinet did so because they
had failed to obtain the custer of
Mr.. Stratos and Gen. Zervas, the
latter then Minister of Public Order.
Gen. Zervas was not in the new
cabinet
Henderson Reaches Athens.
An authoritative Populist spokes-
man said Mr.. Tsaldaris was ready
to resign in favor of coalition gov
ernment, if such could be set up,
and his offers of various concessions,
made in week of negotiations, still
held good.
Only yesterday, even as the Tsal-
daris cabinet took shape. Lincoln
MacVeagh, United States Ambassa-
dor to Greece, repeated that Wash
ington wanted the Greek govern
ment put on a broader foundation.
The United States is aiding Greece
with $500, 100000 in military and
other supplies.
10y Henderson, chief of the Divi-
sion of Near East Affairs of the
United States State Department.
arrived today at Hassani Airport
here and went to Mr.. MacVeagh's s
residence.
He denied that he had come to
Greece because of the governmental
crisis. He said he was making a
f1rst-hand survey of Greece's over
all problems-internally and exter-
nally.
In addition to visiting Mr.. Mac
Veagh, he is expected to confer with
Dwight P. Griswold, head of the
American mission to aid Greece.
Admiral Sakellariou, the only in
dependent member of the new
Tsaldaris cabinet, is known in
Washington because of his residence
here for time during the war. A
former chief of the Greek naval
staff, he was vice president of the
Greek government at the time of the
German invasion in 1941 and was
the last member of the government
to leave Athens at that time. While
in Washington he made his home at
1908 Crittenden street NV.