 As a Minister for Public Order, Zervas initiated inefficient reforms of the gendarmerie and ordered mass arrests of Communists.When he was replaced, Dwight Griswold, head of the U.S economic mission in Greece, said "I feel he is making more Communists than he is eliminating".A few years later, Zervas merged his party with the Liberal Party and was re-elected as representative of Ioannina in the Parliament.