New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 2, 1917, Page 13

° #smonsense about GREEK KING EXPLAINS HIS TROUSLES TO THE WORLD Takes Associated Press Man Into Confidence and Frank- * - Reviews Worries That Beset His Country and His Government. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) any number of similar fabrications, Athens, Jan. 14—King Constantine } but I have never heard of any of the recelved The Associated Press Corre- spondent in audience this morning Just before he left for America. This is the Greek New Year’s Day and be- fore the interview thg correspondent - .assisted with King Constantine, Queen Sophie the Princess Helen and the % woung Prince Paul at the time-hon- bred New Year's ceremony at which | 86ls under the constant irritation of | & band of Greeks chant choruses im dentals being published, Fair Piay Only Desire. “After all, all we ask is fair play. But 1t seems’almost hopeless to try to get the truth oit of Greece to the &est of the world under present cir- cumstances. We have been sorely tried these past two years and we don’t pretend to have always.been an- the ever-increasing Allied control of every little thing in our own private ‘gpraife of king and country in the | ife—letters, telegrams, police, every- /great hall of the palace. L2 “I am sorry you are leavjng ua,” A King Constantine began abruptly. “I 'don’t believe there is a man or woman in Greeco who does not feel very pro- £ . foundly what a great taing it has! b«n for us during this most criti-! I fnge) trom. her. motBer: i MaglsaAiLS:| courtesy of the British Legation here? : thing. sister-in-law, tenburg, ceive a telegram of Christmas grect- Princess. Allice of Bat- hand gland “Morcover by taking an activ in.our own interna! politics, fand France ospecially have succeeded | * Jeal. period in our national histoi¥ o |in alienating an admiration, & sym- have a correspondent of the Asso- ciated Press .here to pathy and devotion towards them on tell the world {the part of the Greek people that, at wiih absplute impartiality the truth jthe beginning of the war, was vVirtual- ‘of what is taking place. me, however, that a good many of Your telegtams to The Prcss never got through the censors. % The king laughed a little ’ '*Ycu have nothing on me,” he added, Neither do mine.” Sl Life in Durgeon. ;"I am afraid there is no way,” he .Iel\‘ on. “We might as well be in geon ere for all the touch we hs‘ th the rest of the world. The . most ridiculous, the most outrageous t 1s happening in Greece is publisied daily in the Eu- Topean press, presumably written by They v,ell,l) an undnimous tradition. 1 ruefully, : 0f a country passionately i ) " Journalists who are not even on the! ‘8pot to sec the facts for themselves. And when my government sends of- nothing ‘'suldier mysell and 1 know Associated ; about politics, but it seems to me that hen you start with almost the whole your ;favor and ‘end with it almost unani- mously against you. you haven’'t suc- ceeded very well. And I quite un- derstand how ' those responsible for such a result seek to excuse them- selves' by exaggerating the 4difficulties they have had to contend with in Greece,—by talking about = Greek treachery and the immense. sinister organization of German propaganda that has foiled them at every turn and so on. The only trouble with that is that they make us pay for the errors of their policy. The people of Greece are paying for them now in ficial denials of them the European suffering and death from exposure and ‘mewspapers will not even publish the i hunger, i starve us out because they have made denials. (Take tXis letter for examp!c. _ .As you see, it is from ex-Mayor Ben. ‘nakis, who was arrested on (Decem- ber 2, during the Aattempted, Fenizel- - st revolution. A French newspaper publishes tory that Bennakis was - 30 badly mistreated that his right arm hpd to be amputated and he was on the point of death. hjs arm amgutated, man Venizelos *ar from having |, he writes me a | | letter with it, as you see,, expren\nkx Ris gratitude. for . he kindpess with ! our desperate struggle to save our- which he has been freated and assur. while France: and England the mistake of assuming that their could deliver “the Greek army and the Greek people to the Entente Powers whenever they wanfed to use Greece for their ad- vantage, Tegardless of the interests of Greece as an independent nation. Mistake of Entente. “There' are just two things about selves from destruction that: I ara inz_me that he is.my most loval and 'going to ask The Associated Press to devoted subject. * Your minister, Mr. Droppers, personally investigated th treatment of those.who were impris- { out some day—all the blockades and’ oned on the charge. of scdition as a : :/¥esult of the abortive revolution of | the ‘truth down forever. cember 1 and 2.and told me him- | try to make clear to the people of| America. The rest will have to come censorships’ in the world ‘cannot keep Understand I am not presuming to sit in judg- f .\xll that he found‘them very com-! ment on the Entente Powers. I ap- | [fortable. My government, therefore elegraphed thé French press a denial | of the Bennakis story as well as of precidte . ‘that they have got ‘other hings to.think about besides Greece. ‘What I'say is meant to fielp them do oldenblum Millinery Co. 188 Main St., NEW BRITAIN Y. M. C. 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Professor Andrew. i Massa. chusetts man and wes atrector of the United States mint in 1909-10 and as- sistant secretary of the treasury in 1910-12. He was . assistant professor of economics at Hmud unlvenny for nine nm . junico to themselves and to us, a small nation,’ - “The first point is this: = Wo have two problems on “our' hands her in Greece—an -internal ‘one and an ‘ex- ternal one, The Entente .' Powers have made the fundamental: mistake of considering them both as one. They said ‘to themselves: ‘Venizelos is the strongest man in Greece and he is heart and soul with us. He can de- liver the Greeks whenever he wants to. Let us back Venizelos therefore and when we need the Greek army he will turn it over to us.’ “Well, they were wrong as I think you have seen for yourself since you have been here. Venizelos was per- haps the strongest man in Greece as they thought. But the moment he tried to turn over the Greek army to the Entente as if we were a lot of mercenaries, he became the weak- est man in Greece and the most des- pised. For in Greece no man de- livers the Greeks. They decide their own destinies as a free people and not England, France and Russia put together can change them, neither by force of arms nor by starvation. And they have tried both. As for Veni- selos himself—you had a man once in your country, a very great man who had even been vice-president of the United States who planned to split the country in two and set him- gelf up as a ruler in the part he separated from the rest.” “Your Majesty means Aaron Burr?” _“Precisely. But he only plotted to do a thing which hé never accom- plished. Venizelos, with the assis- tance of the Allled Powers—and he never could have dome it wthout them—has - sucbeeded for the time being in the same kind of a seditious enterprise, You called Araon Burr a traitor. Well, that's what the Greek people call Venizelos. “The impression has been spread broedcast that Venizelos stands in Greece for liberalism and his op- | ponents for absolutism and militar- lnm. Tt is just the other way around. Venizelos stands for whatever suits his own personal book. His idea of government is absolute dictatorship When he was premier agree with him in his own party. He never sought to express the will of the people; he imposed his will on the people. The Greek people will not stand that. They demand a con- stitutional government in which there is room for two parties, liberals and conservatives, each with a definite program, as In the United States or Eingland or any other civilized coun- try, not a personal government where the only party division is into Veni- selists and anti-Venizelists. German Propaganda. ““That is one thing I wanted to say. The other is about the effect of the so-called German propaganda in Greece, The Entente Powers seem to have adopted that attitude that every- hody who is not willing to fight on their -side must be a pro-German. ‘Nothing could be falser in respect of ASK FOR and GET Horlick’s The Original | & every crowd youll fmd the men amund smo Mecca cxgarettes were made to order for real men. . ers wanted a Smok- cigarette com- bining the flavor of Turkish tobacco with the character of American. Mecca was the answer. It is a real man’s cigarette—the goal of all cigarette smokers. In the handy slide box, 5c for 10; in the oval foil package, 10c for 20, Every time the clock ticks Greece. The present resentment against the Allies. in Greece—and there is & good deal of it,:especially since the blockade is due.to the AHies themselves and not: to any' German propaganda. The proof of it is that when the sa-called German propa- ganda was at its height there was little or mno hostility in Greece to- wards the Allies. It has only been since the. diplomatic representatives of all the Central Empires and every- body else whom the Anglo-French secret police indicated as inimical to the Entente has been expelled from Greece and any German propaganda rendered virtually. impossible, -that there has grown up any popular feel- ing against the Entente. “Part of this is que to the entente’s identification of their greater cause ‘with the personal ambitions of Ven- izelos; but a great deal has also been | due to the very unfortunate handling of the allfed control in. Greece. When you write a personal letter of no pos- sible international significance to a friend or relative here in Athens and post it in Athens and it is held a week opened and. half its contents blacked out, it makes you pretty cross—not because it is unspeakable tyranny in a free country at peace with all the world, but because it is so silly. For after all if you want to plot with a man living in the same town you don’t write him a letter. You put on your hat and go to see him. Half the peo- ple in Greece have been continually exasperated by just this sort of un- intelligent control which has irritated the Greek people beyond any telling. But to say that they are pro-German because they dislike having their pri- vate letters opened or their homes entered without any legal authority whatsoever is childish. Its a vicious circle. The entente take exceptionally severe measures because they allege the Greeks are pro-German. The Greeks very naturally resent the measures thus taken as would the Americans or anybody else. The en- tente then turns around and -says: ‘You see that ‘proves that the Greeks are pro-German as we suspected.’ “The fact of the matter is that there is even now less pro-German “Girdece | mm ‘than'in the United .Greek is an enemy and not trusted is merely a standing chal- | States, Holland or any of the Scandi- navian countries. And' there is far less anti-entente propaganda in Greece even now .than . there is anti-Hellenic propaganda in Eng- land, France and Russia. The whole feeling of the Greek people towards the entente powers today is one of sorrow and disillusionment. They had heard so much of this ‘war for the defense of little nations’ that it has been a very great shock to them to be treated as they feel very badly, even cruelly, for no reason and to no- body’s profit. And more than any- thing else, after all the Greek govern- ment. and Greek people have done to help the entente powers since the very outbreak of the war, they.deep- ly resent being called pro-German be- cause they have not been willing to see their n country - destroyed as Serbia- and” Rumania have been de- stroyed. Public Is Nettled.’ “As I have tried repeatedly to point out’to the entente representa- tives :there can only be one certain guarantee of the safety of the allled forces in the Balkans as far as the Greeks are concerned—that is mutual confidence. The assumption that every to be lenge to every hothead to attempt something irreparable—ipfreparable for Greece as well as for the entente. | i “I have done everything I could to dissipate the mistrust of the powers, I have given every possible assur- ance and guarantee. Many of the military measures that have been de- manded I myself suggested with a view to tranquillizing the allies and myself voluntarily offered to execute. My army, which any soldier knows could never conceivably have consti- tuted a danger to the allied forces in Macedonia, has been virtually put in jail in the town of Peloponessus. My people have been disarmed and are today powerless even against revolu- tion so long as the entente powers continue to finance the openly de- clared revolutionary party of Venize- los. There isn’t enough food left in Greece to last a fortnight. Not the! Bolsiane. thempstuss; uader Germa rule have been rendered more help- less than are we in Greece today. “Isn’t it, therefore, time calmly' to look at conditions in Greece as they panic and to .display a little high quality of faith which A Classy Showing of 1917 Heywood- Wakefield CARRIAGES A large and attractive assortment of patterns awaits your im- spection here. We feature the famous Hevwood-Wakefield make of Carriages. easily handled. , Reed Hood Carriages in Natural, Black and White Finishes. patterns and finishes. 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