In her fresh: travail Greece; once) more looks to M. Venizelos and would offer him greater power than he has ever before wielded. Fickleness has been the prevailing feature of Greek rulers and people in the last dozen er so of years, and only ai man of great faith and optimism would again dream of risking reputation and all in struggling for them. Practically everything that present-day Greece has got she owes to M. Venizelos and whatever she has lost she owes to her lack of tappreciation of his efforts. He it was who established the Balkan League which was one of the most far-reaching efforts in the direction of putting an end to the Turkish menace over that part of the world, and when that menace revived with the entry of Turkey on the side of the Central Powers into the European War, he again grasped the situation: and invited the Allies to land in Greece. A patient and long-suffering man he was, and although he knew only too well in those days that Constantine was in collusion with the Kaiser, hie stayed his hamid until the last moment. Only when there was no longer a chance' Constantine steering a straight course did he raise the standard of revolt and oust him. There was, however, no thought of personal aggrandizement in the act, for he was ever true to the reigning family. M), Venizelos saw the country through the war and the peace negotiations, and the latter proved his undoing politically.
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