Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-12-07

iieve that the Intervention policy Of the
former premier, M. veniselos. really
expressed the will Of the Greek peo-
pie r.
II know 1t did not" replied the king.
forcefuily. When the people re- elected
venizelos they elected him. not his pol
ley. The great mass Of the people OF
Greece did not, and will not, under
stand anything about the venizeios
foreign policy. They like him and they
elected him, but It would be the mad
dest folly TO assume that because they
voted for man personally popular
they therefore voted to throw the
country into the whirlpool Of the Euro
pean war. They did no such thing.
War; the last thing they want. Ask
them; they will tell you.
saved People From War.
ut is said I have exceeded the con-
stitution. What have done is to APP
ply the constitution. The constitution
gives me the power to dissolve the
chamber to prevent just such disas-
tiers as following the Venizelos policy
would have proved at this juncture.
My duty under the constitution was to
exercise that power. / did exercise 1t
and will continue to exercise it SO long
as 1t is necessary to save my people
from destruction. F,tsis5s5 5g-7
Another thing want to make clear:
It is that NJ. Venizelos, with my assent,
invited the allied troops to come to
Saloniki. Nothing could be further
from the truth. NJ. Venizelos may have
expressed the personal opinion that If
the allied troops landed at Saloniki.
Greece would not resist. How could
she resist! that NJ. Venizelos ever, as
the responsible head of the Greek gov
eminent, formally invited foreign
troops to enter Greek territory is
wholly untrue"
your majesty believes that the al
lied Balkan expedition is doomed to
failure?"
undertaken with no more men than are
now there or on the way.
critieises Great Britain.
''Great Britain does not seem dis
posed to send an adequate force and
minimum army that cap hope to &C
complish anything in the Balkans is
100000 men. AS that number Is not
being sent, that is my proof that it is
Greece that must suffer, Greece that
Al0Sk pay AOA IAO AeSAoAS ~ sAAS s~AAAS~>
Balkan venture.
IF the entente will assure me that
when they are driven back into Greek
territory they will consider the Balkan
game ended, re-embark and leave
Greece, will guarantee with my whole
army to protect their retreat against
the Germans Bulgarians, or anybody
else and give them time to embark
without being endangered. Then I
would be legitimately protecting my
'front.' ers, and it would not involve
Greece in further risks. More can
not do.
THE ententes' demand is too much.
They try to drive Greece out OF neu-
trality; they come into Greek terri
tory and waters as though these were
theirs. At Eautlia they destroyed
tanks Of petroleum, intended to kill
locusts, on the excuse that they might
be used by German submarines. They
stop Greek ships, they ruin Greek COM
merce-as they have done with Ameri-
can ships, too: they want to seize our
railways, and now they demand that
we take away the troops guarding the
Greek frontiers, leaving my country
open to invasion or any lawless In !.
cursion.
~ viii Not Do lei"
II will not do it. am willing to dis
cuss reasonably any fair proposals.
But two things will not concede.
Greece shall not be forced or cajoled
out OF her neutrality: Greece will
maintain her sovereignty and her SOW
ereign right to protect herself at need"
And II that il not satisfactory-if
coercive measures are used by the en-
tente powers!" the king was asked.
I'VE shall protest to the whole world
that our sovereign rights are violated.
We shall resist passively as long as
we humanely can, being forced by any
means whatsoever into a course which
we know will be prejudical to the liber-
ties and happiness Of our people"
"And when you can not hold out
longer?"
I'VE shall have to demobilize our
armies and await the march Of events.
What else can we do"
A hummins bird, when stripped Of
it's feathers. is no larger than a bum
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