Papandreou meaning

Georgios Papandreou was born in and as a young man became involved in antiroyalist politics. He served as a member of parliament, interior minister (), and in several other government posts during the Republic of and was considered a major force as Minister of Education under Eleftherios Venizelos in a period which saw vast improvement in Greece's educational system.

He was imprisoned and exiled in by the Greek dictator John Metaxas before the Second World War and when freed was active in the Greek resistance, later heading the government-in-exile in Egypt. A staunch anti-Communist, he was not fanatic enough to get support of the United States in the fifties, who passed up his Center Union Party and supported instead General Papagos and later Constantine Karamanlis who were more to the right, leaving Papandreou as the voice of the opposition.

Following a government scandal and the fall of Karamanlis' National Radical Union the Cent