‘On 23.7.1974 during the end phase of the military regime, he was called back to his homeland and in the morning hours of the following days he again created a democratic government. […] The straightforwardness of his democratic and republican policies, his practiced conviction of the obligatory necessity of the unification of Europe, with which he declaredly placed his political existence in a position of full risk last November, identifies him as one of the important personal hopes for Europe.’