• Constitutional crisis in Greece diary and other material

Description:
  • Physical description: 17-19 lines per page; written in a diary book of 1926 issued by Galery Lafayette in Paris.
Date:
  • 1926-1930
Range label:
  • Logical
Type:
  • Diaries
  • Paper
  • Personal narratives
  • Sources
  • Maps
Abstract:
  • Two handwritten manuscript diaries in one book: 1926 and 1939. The unknown author, probably a journalist, interviews and witnesses the key people and events in Greeceʾs constitutional crisis in 1926. Then, thirteen years later, he is in Paris reporting on the events of the World War II. Includes newspaper clippings from local and international papers. Shorthand code writing. Attached a folded map of Paris in the paste-down endpaper. The hard cover 209 x 135 mm separated from the text block though present bears colorful floral decoration.
Title sort:
  • Constitutional crisis in Greece diary and other material.
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
Publisher:
  • 1926, 1939.
Subject:
  • World War, 1939-1945—Personal narratives
  • Greece—Politics and government—1917-1935—Sources
  • Greece—Constitutional history
  • Paris (France)—Maps
  • Manuscripts, English—New Jersey—Princeton
  • Diaries
  • Paper
Language:
  • English
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/5d86p856m
Format:
  • Manuscript
  • Book
Extent:
  • 1 v. (unpaged) : extra ill. ; 200 x 129 (140 x 104) mm.
Call number:
  • C0938 no. 463
Source acquisition:
  • Gift ; Program in Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund. AM 2009-129.
Location:
  • MSS C0938 no. 463
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