M. Rhallys has been appointed Greek Premier, and has begun his public utterances by a denial of pro-German tendencies on the part of his ministry, a declaration of solidarity with the Allies and a statement that no change in for-sion policy is in contemplation. He is probably quite honest in this declaration, for his previous political history does not show him as originally a partisan of the Germans, and the same may be said of M. Gounaris, his Minister of War. Rather have these two been enemies of M. Venizelos, and this, coupled with too great an eagerness to be on the Winning side, has been responsible for changes in their attitude. At the start of the war M. Rhallys is believed to have been strongly pro-Ally, and it is on record tha when it was proposed that Greece should cooperate in the British attack on the Dardanelles he join-M. Venizelos in urging Constantive to this course. As we know, Greece did not cooperate, and, never particularly stalwart in his views, M. Rhallys allowed himself; to be dazzled by German
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