News of July 28, 1938
(This text is copied and adapted from Wikipedia. See link to license at bottom of page) News of July 28, 1938 Failed coup in Greece A revolt against the Ioannis Metaxas dictatorship was put down in Chania , Greece. Who was Metaxas? Ioannis Metaxas ( Greek : Ιωάννης Μεταξάς ; 12 April 1871 [1] – 29 January 1941) was a Greek military officer and politician, serving as Prime Minister of Greece from 1936 until his death in 1941. He governed constitutionally for the first four months of his tenure, and thereafter as the strongman of the authoritarian 4th of August Regime . Patterning his regime on other authoritarian European governments of the day (most notably Fascist Italy ), Metaxas banned political parties (including his own), prohibited strikes and introduced widespread censorship of the media. National unity was to be achieved by the abolition of the previous political parliamentary system, which was seen as having left the country in chaos (see Nation