A three-page handwritten Greek document titled “Αντί Εισηγήσεως — Μία ανοικτή ευλόγηση προς τον Πρόεδρον της Ελληνικής Κυβερνήσεως κύριον Θ. Πάγκαλον” — “Instead of a Recommendation: An Open Appeal to the President of the Greek Government, Mr. Th. Pangalos.”
Theodoros Pangalos was a Greek general who seized power in a military coup in June 1925 and ruled Greece as dictator under the title “President of the Government” until he was deposed fourteen months later in August 1926. This open-appeal letter is dated by reference to that fourteen-month window. It is a substantial political polemic — three pages of dense Greek cursive — touching on Asia Minor refugees, the 1922 catastrophe, Turkish persecution, and broader foreign-policy critique (France, Germany, Bulgaria, the Bolshevik Revolution).
The format — “Instead of a Recommendation / An open appeal” — is rhetorical: the author had given up on formal channels and was publishing this as an open letter for broader Greek-public attention. It could be a Lazaros draft (he had published this kind of polemic before — see his 1915 Athens book The National Tragedy of Thrace and Asia Minor) or a copy of someone else’s open letter that he preserved. The handwriting differs from his October 1926 New York letter, so the author is not yet conclusively identified.
A full Greek transcription is the next step — would surface the author’s name (likely in the closing), the policy proposals, and the rhetorical positioning of the appeal.
