March 11.
On Armistice Day, November 11, last year, the late General Metaxas, then the Prime Minister of Greece, delivered a stirring address to his people on the necessity for spiritual as well as military mobilization. General Metaxas has passed on. His death caused a gap in the political line-up of his country which has been diffeult to fil. As alway occurs when a man of the most outstanding merit dies, his successors find it hard to preserve the same standards that he created. M. Alexander Korisis, the present Prime Minister, though hardly a man the same calibre as General Metaxas, has nevertheless inherited a splendid tradition, And there seems to be little reason to doubt that he will not remain faithful to that tradition, along with the people over whom has been called to rule. While perhaps hie may not possess the powerful personality. of his predecessor, or his ability to initiate fundamental reforms, M. Korlsis can be believed to be fully capable of making the almost out of the wonderful national spirit <which now exists in Greece. General Metaxns, a soldier and a realist, defied the 'Axis' attempt to swallow his country. When
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