The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-30
PRINCES COMING
BACK TO Greece
Military League, Which Had
Them Banished, Now Clam
ors for Their Recall.
CLEVER KING GEORGE
Sat Tight During All the Trout
bic, and Now Has Firm
Hold on His Kingdom.
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ING. GEORGE of Greece has once
,.,orn an nh q Sized his claim TO

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> ING. GEORGE of Greece has once
more emphasized his claim 10
N the name of being the most
clever and sagacious monarch
Of the present time. For while during
the past year his position at Athens
has appeared so intolerable that his
abdication, or else his deposition. was
looked for almost daily and British
and Russian warships were kept per
manently at the Preus. In order TO al,
ford refuge and protection to the royai
family, in the event OF their lives be-
ing endangered by mob violence, ne
remained at his post, sacrificing his
annual visit to the thermal spring OF
Aix-les-Bains, which the doctors con,
slider so necessary for his health, ana
recuperation. He was forced to sub
init to the removal of his sons from
the commands which they occupied
in the army and navy. and TO their
departure from Greece. these demands
having been formulated by the Cab
net and Chamber. in Difference TO the
so-called Military League, composed OF
lied themselves for the purpose of puri-
flying Greek political life and com.
polling the adopting of much ne.deo
reforms, developed into an irresponsi-
bic olisarchy. terrorzing a. atl branches
Throughout 1t all the king behaved
with the utmost forbcarance and Dig
nifty, endeavoring by strict Observance
of the Constitution to bring his sub
jects to saner ideas. OF course lie was
supported in measure by the refusal
of foreign money markets to advance
any funds to the Creek government
as long as the position of the throne
seemed SO precarious; and 1t was
made thoroughly clear AT Athens that
IL the King were to go either through
ahdication or deposition, no more mon
ey would be available from abroad.
and that the nation could no longer De
able TO count upon the protection of
It's independence from Turkish agrees
sion.
The Crown Prince and Crown Prin-
cess. Prince George and Prince Mich
olas. with their children. have all been
living abroad for the past eight months
to all intents and purposes eXiles. and
Just before Christmas the situation
seemed so hopeless the Crown Prince
had actually caused all his belongings
at Athens and at his country seat IN
the neighborhood 10 be packed up for
transmission TO st. Petersburg, where
he contemplated making from thence
forth his home, taking service in the
Russian army.
Now, however. there has been re-
vulsion. The Military League has &C
complished nothing in the way OF re-
form. beyond compelling the govern
ment to call a national assembly for
tho revision of the Constitution. Torn
By internal dtssensons, II has lost
authority and prestige with the ar
my upon which il relied and can no
longer exercise its will upon the gov
eminent and the parliamentary oppo-
sition.
And now comes the climax. fhe
very army officers who demanded a
year ago the eXpatr!ation of the Crown
Prince. his elimination from the sue
cession to the throne and who INSIST
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his brothers, of all military and naval
offices and dignities. are now clamor
ing loudly for his return, having come
to the conclusion that it is only with
nasty that they. can ever expect to
carry through tic reforms which they
have all along had in view. They do
not even venture to ask him to help
reforms which they had contemplated
al the time of their coup d'etat or
pronunciamento year ago, nut de-
clare that"they Will be perfectly salts
fed II he will only help them to OBJ
tain the reforms in connection with
the army, which are Indispensable 10
it's efficiency.
Princes Coming Back.
/ II is with this object IN View that
the once so powerful, bur now consid-
erably humbled and discredited Mill
tary League has approached the King
entreating him to Immediately sum
mon back to Greece those very princes,
that is to say, his sons, whose dtsmiss-
al from the army and cXpatriation II
had extorted from him last year The
King, refraining from the reproaches
which he might Justly have addressed
| to them, promised to comply with their
wishes. and as the government, as
well as the opposition leaders, both
heartily sick of the Military League.
see in the return of the princes. es-
| pecially of the heir apparent, safe
guard against any revival OF the reign
of terror of the Military League, and
the restoration of some kind of discp .
! line and order among the officers of
the army, they have also urged the
\ King to bring back his, sons to Greece:
/ Consequently the Crown Prince and
| his brothers are returning In response
| to the wish, nay the entreaty, of all
classes OF the Greek population, hailed
with an enthusiasm all the greater, In
! that it is meant to give expression to
| iected to q singularly cruel and unde
served injustice Indeed, the outcome
of King Georges sitting tight in the
saddle and keeping level head and
thoughts Of personal danger and pa
| tient under the most exasperating
and humilating conditions, Is that
his dynasty is more strongly cslab.
1 lishcd in Greece than ever and that
his subjects, having foundry experience
| that they cannot get along without
the royal family, will now make great
| er efforts than in the past to retain
them in the country by, rendering their
/ life there agreeable.
i If the experience OF the royal family
4 during the past year has been UNI
| pleasant. so, too, has that of the Greeks.
For they have seen that owing totheh'
! treatment Of their reigning house,
they have been boycotted not alone BY
the money markets. by the foreign
i governments and foreign courts. but
| even by the foreign tourists who in
/ the past have brought so much money
II into the country, and they have come to
4 realize what a very important asset
in their national welfare Is the dynas-
i ty which for close upon half century
j has now governed their destinies
"NIrs. Speaker's" Gallery.
Queen Alexandra. when she ,ysiita
the House Of Commons. as she did with
her daughter, Princess Victoria, Just
before leaving England for her cruise
in the Mediterranean, does not occupy
a place In the gallery from which women
4 of the exalted rank hear the debates.
i The occasion Of the Queens presenr,
/ at the House was the maiden sneec1
y of tho Hon. Nell Primrose Lord Rose
81 hery'S Younger son, whom she has