"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."
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Georgios Papandreou
1944 – 1945
Georgios Papandreou (13 February 1888 – 1 November 1968) was a Greek politician, and the founder of the Papandreou political dynasty, father of Andreas Papandreou. He served three times as Prime Minister of Greece (1944–1945, 1963, 1964–1965) and was Deputy Prime Minister from 1950 to 1952. Over a political career that spanned more than five decades, he held numerous ministerial posts, beginning in 1914, as Director of the Political office of Eleftherios Venizelos.
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