documents · Document ·~1925-1926 ·New York or Greece

Handwritten open letter to General Th. Pangalos, President of the Greek Government

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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 as dictator of Greece until August 1926 under the title “President of the Government.” This open-appeal letter is dated by reference to that 14-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 — Lazaros had a published polemical history (his 1915 Athens book The National Tragedy of Thrace and Asia Minor) — or a copy of someone else’s open letter he preserved. The handwriting differs from his October 1926 New York letter, so the author is not yet conclusively identified.

The document needs a full Greek transcription by a fluent reader to extract its substance, including the author’s name (likely in the closing) and the specific policy proposals.