March, 25.
One hundred and twenty years ago today the Greeks took up arms to fight for their independence and freedom and after a long struggle they secured it, In this year of grace they are fighting for the same things: They aye fighting with a determination which has earned for them the plaudits of the whole world, save perhaps, the dictator Powers, one of which, believing it would be easy to swallow Greece, 50 treacherously attacked her last year. The Greeks not too well equipped for winter fighting cagerly re~ sponded to the challenge, drove the Italians out of that part of Greece which they suc~ ceeded in invading, chased them well into Albania, and inflicted severe defeats upon them contrary to everything which Mussolini expected, For sheer bravery, and dogged determination the Greeks have surpassed themselves. They stand as a model to all nations who hold honour dearer than servile peace, and og a lasting reproach to those larger countries which have allowed themselves to be cowed and broken by threats of invasion.
It is no longer fitting to speak of the glory that was Greece, but more appropriate to think of the glory that 1s Greece for its people are fighting with precisely the same couraste which marked some of the wars of their carly history which have long since passed into tradition. This race of warriors who asked for nothing more than to be allow-
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