The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1915-11-23
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fNNAANlNN AIi ANANNhAAHA NAHaNAAAaAr - Us
cntcnte ard alliance bciligcrents, Is
described By a longtime friend foi
the people OF this country in a cons
munication 20 the National G%cograph-
ic society by George Higgins Nose,
formerly United statos ambassador 10
Greece. A sketch OF Mr. Moses intl-
mate study u Greece OF today. It's as
pirations. It's accomplishments and its
sympathies, has Just been prepared
for the press by the society. of the
attitude OF the modern Greek. MI
Moses says;
Greece OF today deems herself
and Is in truth-the heir to the ages
Not only from her classic past. but
from every era Of foreign domination.
her incompatible spirit has taken and
assimilated some feature now dis
tiguishabic In her everyday life. Ro-
man. Venetian and Moslem have thu
paid tribute TO the brave people they
have overriden. but whom they could
not subdue. There are few parallels
Indeed at the present m l
can recall but one-to the striking
racial phenomenon % Hellenic com
ununlty throughout the vicissituces
iof two thousand years. Modcrn re-
search has penetrated the dark by
ways of medieval Greek history. and
we now know that the Greeks. what
lever their temporary fate, have pre-
%scrved unbroken the thread OF their
national existence"
As the central inspiration OF Greek
political development. MI Moses tells
OF their Great Idea This Great
Idea. the writer says, has exerted a
powerful influence both upon inter
nal and external politics Of the nation
for nearly half q century. In brief.
u is nothing less than a dream OF re-
establishing the Byzantine empire un-
der the standard uf modern Greece.
II IL the most dazzling n stendfast
Inspiration OF the modern Hcllenes:
and. in the present turbulent and cor
hicting policies Of the Greeks. It's
varying application Will hkelyy be- ape
parent more often than any other
! Greek motive.
"Out Of the Great Idea arises that
term Of classification which refers 20
those OF Greek blood who exist under
Turkish. Serb or Bulgarian jurisdic-
ton as the enslayed brethren Do con
tradistinctiou 20 those who are free
Greeks Of the little kingdom OF the
Hcllenes. and the effort blood and
Treasure expended by the free Greeks.
Ia behalf NJ their subiug8ted kindred
in Crete and Macedonia, even prior 10
the late Balkan wars. are incredible
in amount
TN pursuit of the Great Idea.
lGrcok bands Tor ycars ra,uged those
portions of Macedonia ANA E9irus
which are not prcpondcrantly Hellcui,
n blood and aggravated IN, age-lons
hatred between Greek ana Bulgai.
which with difficulty was laid aside
uut one,. and then only Ions enough
to dlspossess the ottoman upprcssor
when % broLp forth once moro with
]rcdouhlcd Jury Because ot %,
Great Idea Crct, was periodically
upset boz revolution aud iur "a crutIr
,his th, largest aud the uu-t frril,
81 iho Aegean Isles. was foudoro,
useless to either Turk pr lrcoN
spurred on by the Great Idea Con.
|stautine's nSIng columns crossed m,
IThcss1liau frontier forced the No.
una pass wiping out ~ tragic mem.
ofics from the war of 1891 and came
in triumph Co salonikI % was an,
Great Idea which drove The southern
Epirutcs i1 the re-. olt asalnst uyorpo-
ration iu the autonomous Albania
which the ambassadors had $50 sum.
marly set up at London
Modern Greece, the writer .ayr. hl.
accomplished sn much boo -o short "
ume-for be- Independence only began
with the conclusion uf the London
protocol bon IN3o-that great prais.
can not bc withheld from be- emerged,
people. II 81. De- continue essential
Ig s band oi agriculture ur,-cmlurut.
Iy Intended TO Doe such but owing o.
the tremendous drain Dos emigriuuf
from the rural districts. the prorro
OF agriculture has been painfully de-
hcjcnt. and in many ulac,s ;ho Ian,
b. titled only ny womcn and girls
hllc tho men ere away in Amcrir,
amassIns modern fortunes
OF the royal family an Hissins OF.
fcrs the f]ollowing Iutorostius com
mcut.
"The royal family in ms day Wal
made up OF many nationaiities Th'
King was a Dane his queen "a Rus.
sim: the row princess "a sister al
the kaiser; the Princes George Of the
Bonaparte family: the Princess Nich.
olas a Russian grand duchess. IA.