--- description: Six-and-a-half hours after the polls closed in Sunday's general election in Greece, Field Marshal Alexander Papagos was able to claim a landslide victory for his year-old, Gaullist-like Greek... title: GREECE: Victory for Papagos image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # GREECE: Victory for Papagos by [TIME](/author/time/) Nov 24, 1952 5:00 AM CUT by [TIME](/author/time/) Nov 24, 1952 5:00 AM CUT Six-and-a-half hours after the polls closed in Sunday’s general election in Greece, Field Marshal Alexander Papagos was able to claim a landslide victory for his year-old, Gaullist-like Greek Rally Party. With 49% of the popular vote, the party will have 241 seats in the 300-member Parliament. It was the second greatest political victory in modern Greek history, matched only by the Liberal sweep in 1928\. The Communists got 10% of the vote, but won not a single seat in Parliament. Next day King Paul, who a year ago had refused to send for Field Marshal Papagos, though he had then won the largest vote, sent for him and appointed him Premier. The King and the 68-year-old general, who skillfully fought the Fascists in World War II and the Communists in 1949, were once friends and fell out; now the King was at least prepared to recognize that Papagos is the people’s choice. The U.S. Embassy in Greece (where $2 billion of U.S. aid has been distributed) hoped for a Papagos victory, but took no open part in the campaign. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6619694/greece-victory-for-papagos/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6619694/greece-victory-for-papagos/"},"headline":"GREECE: Victory for Papagos","datePublished":"1952-11-24T05:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-26T06:38:03.235Z","description":"Six-and-a-half hours after the polls closed in Sunday's general election in Greece, Field Marshal Alexander Papagos was able to claim a landslide victory for his year-old, Gaullist-like Greek...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6619694/greece-victory-for-papagos/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/author/time/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6619694/greece-victory-for-papagos/","name":"GREECE: Victory for Papagos"}}]}] ```