Greek Courage
Sir: If a Nobel Prize were to be awarded for 'courage', then one of this year's contenders to join the ranks of Alexander, Hercules, Hector, Lysander and such great men as these surely must be the 'non- political' Marxist Christos Sartzetakis, re- cently elected President of the Greek Republic as a result of a travesty of a basic democratic principle.
What democratic government could jus- tify the entitlement of an acting President of the Republic — having assumed his new role which obliged him by law to relinquish his duties as an MP — to switch hats again for an hour or two and return to parliament for the purpose of casting a decisive vote in the election of a new President?!
Anyhow, on Saturday 30 March Christos Sartzetakis was duly sworn in as President of the Greek Republic in the full know- ledge that this would meet with the scorn and disapproval of half the Greek elector- ate and the derision of the whole democra- tic world. A brave man indeed to accept office under such circumstances.
A. Papadopoulos
Corfu Hilton, Nausica Street, Cannoni, Corfu, Greece
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