Tue extremely interesting letter which we publish to-day from a Greek correspondent unquestionably presents the execution of the six high officials of the Constantine regime in a new light. He tells us that the only really solid vote cast in the Greek elections of November, 1920, was that for M. Venizelos, and that it amounted to forty-five per cent. of the total votes recorded. The so-called Royalist majority, he says, was in reality a composite vote, and while it included large numbers of Hellenic Turks who were opposed to M. Venizelos, many young Greeks, who would have been for him, were absent with the colours and were thus unable to vote. What our correspondent does not make quite clear is how a composite vote of the kind he describes gave the Constantine party enough power to bring back the ex-King after the death of King Alexander in defiance of the Venizelist party, to say nothing of the Entente's note. With all allowance for lobbying and secret manipulation, the Venizelists in Parliament might have been expected to make their protests heard. But it is significant that, if the Lausanne correspondent of the " Manchester Gordian is to be believed, M. Venizelos himself does not consider the executions unjustified end it may yet be found that Mr. Lindley, the British Minister in Athens, acted somewhat hastily in breaking off diplomatic relations with Greece.
One sentence, at least, in our correspondent's letter i. caleulat-
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.