Petros Garoufalias
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Petros Garoufalias (
Center Union
government.
Life
Born in
Member of Parliament.[1]
Garoufalias graduated from the Law School of
Athens University and earned post-graduate degrees in Commercial Law and Economics in Berlin and Paris.[2]
He served as a Member of Parliament for
Sophoklis Venizelos
(Papandreou himself was Deputy Prime Minister).
He married Marianthi Fix, widow of industrialist Ioannis Fix, and thus inherited the
best man
at the wedding.
Garoufalias was named Greek Minister of Defense in the third Papandreou government, from February 1964 to July 1965. He clashed with the Prime Minister's son,
Regime of the Colonels.[2]
In his 1982 book "Greece and Cyprus: Tragic Mistakes, Lost Opportunities, February 19, 1964 – July 15, 1965", Garoufalias claimed that the
Greek Army division that was secretly dispatched to Cyprus in 1964 was his idea,[3] an opinion vociferously rejected by Andreas Papandreou, who maintained that Garoufalias's role on Cyprus was very limited, and that he merely followed orders, without even being invited to the most important meetings.[4]
Garoufalias died on September 17, 1984, aged 83.[2]
References
- ^ a b "ΟΙ ΓΑΡΟΥΦΑΛΙΑΔΕΣ". gnomiartas.gr. Retrieved 2017-05-27.
- ^ a b c Τα Νέα, 18 Σεπτεμβρίου 1984
- ^ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΤΟΥ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΥ «ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΣ ΒΕΖΑΝΗΣ - ΣΚΕΨΕΙΣ ΚΑΙ ΜΑΡΤΥΡΙΕΣ» ΣΤΗΝ ΑΘΗΝΑ
- ^ Andreas Papandreou, Democracy at Gunpoint: The Greek Front, σελίδες 100-101, London: Andre Deutsch, 1971
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