Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Duk da wannan bayyana tsaka tsaki, Girka ta zama makasudin manufofin fadada Mussolini. Sakamakon da aka yi wa Girka ya hada da nutsewar jirgin ruwa mai suna "Elli" a ranar 15 ga Agusta, 1940. Sojojin Italiya sun tsallaka iyaka a ranar 28 ga Oktoba, 1940, suna fara yakin Girka-Italiya
, amma an dakatar da shi ta hanyar kare kariya ta Girka, kuma a karshe ya koma Albania. Metaxas ya mutu ba zato ba tsammani a cikin Janairu 1941. Mutuwarsa ta haifar da fatan sassaucin mulkinsa da maido da mulkin majalisa, amma Sarki George ya murƙushe waɗannan fatan lokacin da ya ci gaba da tsarin mulkin.