Greek Mps 1961-1963 - Konstantinos Karamanlis, Ilias Iliou, Konstantinos Mitsotakis, Manolis Glezos, Ilias Tsirimokos (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Konstantinos Karamanlis, Ilias Iliou, Konstantinos Mitsotakis, Manolis Glezos, Ilias Tsirimokos, Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas, Evangelos Averoff, Ioannis Passalidis. Excerpt: Evangelos Averoff-Tositsas Evangelos Averoff-Tositsas (Greek: ) (Trikala, April 17, 1910 January 2, 1990) was a distinguished liberal Greek politician of Aromanian origin and a prominent author . During the tripartite Axis occupation of Greece, Averoff was taken hostage and imprisoned in Italy . He escaped a year later and created the "Freedom or Death " resistance group, which aimed to liberate Greek and Allied war hostages. During the military dictatorship of 1967-1974, Averoff participated in one of the foremost acts of resistance against the regime, the Velos mutiny, for which he was arrested as an "instigator." After the restoration of democracy in 1974 during metapolitefsi, Averoff participated in the New Democracy centre-right party under Konstantinos Karamanlis and served as minister in subsequent governments. Averoff was elected president of the party in 1981, but had to leave his post due to health problems in 1984. Evangelos Averoff has been a prominent author of political and historical works, such as "Customs Union in the Balkans" (1933), which the Carnegie institute awarded, "Fire and Axe, 1944-1949" (1974) dealing with the Greek civil war, and "A History of missed opportunities: The Cypriot Problem 1956-1963" (1981). Party political offices A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Georgios Athanasiadis Novas (Greek: - ) (February 9, 1893 August 10, 1987 ) was a Greek lawyer, politician and Prime Minister . Born in Naupactus, he obtained his law degree from the University of Athens . He was first elected to the Greek Parliament in 1926 representing his native prefecture of Aetoli...