Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-12-02
Family of Monarch in Sympa-
thy With Neutral Policy To-
ward BeIIgerentS, Core
SpOndent Says,
NOW SOLE DICTATOR
OF C0UNTRYS OESTlNlES
0utpIayS VenIzeIoS and Drives
Idol of Hellenic People Into
Complete Political 0bSCur-
ity for Time Being,
tAssoclated Press Correspondencc.l

Associated Press C0rFespondenccl
Athens. Nov live believe hat it
is better for Greece to make sure of
keeping what she has got than to risk
what She has just won in two bloody,
costly wars in the hope of getting
more"
one of the princes Of Greece was
speaking to the Associated Press cor
respondent explaining the attitude of
the royal family Of Greece. which
has been So much criticized
This is no time, he continued, foH
a mere fox to De greedy There are
too many lions and tigers on the proWl
for prey these days
II the royal state of the house of
Schleswig Holstein Sonderburg
Glucksburg (to give it its fun tltle)
Is at stake in Greece at this moment
as many are ready to affirm, the fact
would never appear from the de-
meanor Of those most concerned II
it is lust conceivable. as has been de-
clarod, that the events of the next few
months may leave Constantine T. king
of the Hellenes, without a throne, the
king himself seems to be the last per
son in Greece to suspect any such pos
slble eventuality.
Now Sole Dictator.
TIE has followed with apparent
eQuanmity the creation and fan of
one cabinet after another, and cannot
be ignorant that he has set himself
againt the expressed VIII OF mis- peU-
pie and has driven the peoples idol,
Elutherios Constantine NeniZelos, into
political corner and that he is looked
upon as having become in fact the
sole dictator of the future dostinics of
Greece
But it cannot be seen that anything
of this disconcerts him for moment.
The brief statement which he gave
the Associated Press on October l3,
is the only public statement of any
Kind he has made Of his policy since
the beginning Of the political crisis
following the second election Of Veni-
zclos
Family Is Confident.
The kings brothers and his chill
dren, 1t can be said, regard the course
the head OF the family is steering with
complete confidence, being convinced
that Constantine I knows what he is
about: that he knows the Greeks bet
tor than the Greeks know themselves
Whatever the personal influence OF
the queen, who is the German em-
pcrors sister, and being a very clever
and a very determined woman, she
has no little influence, the responsi-
hIlity is Constantncs and the inner
circles, declare that he has his family
back Of him the whole way.
Plays Shrcwd Game.
On the ordering Of the mobilization
King Constantine did not go at once
to Saloniki to place himself at the.
head Of his country's troops as COM
mander-in-chief. His late illness was
given as the reason; but the real rea-
son IL is declared lay in his unwill-
ingness to leave the political direc-
lion of the country in the hands of NJ,
Fenizelos or his party. Not even
when foreign troops We're landed on
Greek soil, at Greece's second city, did
Constantine alter his decision He
merely sent his 25-year-oid son, the
'Dladochos or crown prince, George,
Duke Of Sparta, in his place and de-
tailed the boys 33-ycar-old uncle,
Prince Andrew, to look after him.
Keeps Bachelors Quarters.
The two eampod out in a temporary
sort Of way in very pleasantly sit
nated little villa at the waters edge,
lar around the eastern portion of the
Crescent that the bay makes Of the
Struggling town of Saloniti. II Isl
generally known as bachelors hall,
because the Princess Alice Of Batten-
DerR 'rince Andrews wife, does not
~ s4loniN often or stop long,
saAi 10 find It too embarrassing,
hsrself an English princess, to-
n q plare filled with British off
s ql British peers, whom she has,
i'Nt fui Years. without being able,
extend them the slightest hospital
est tPe courtesy be construed asI
stt "a royal acquiesence in the
p'ese fe e foreign troops on Greek
ie good looking young man.
andrew Like his older broth
ne king. he is very tall, is clean
S-'aFen. wears "a monocle and brace
'et saeh as the Prnssian officers
wear. and a lacket that fits him as
e'asei3 as any woman's evening
so"h Ills pride is his cavalry regi-
ment
i'tinccs Watch but DO Nothing.
Neither the Diadochos nor his un-
ole apparently can quite get used to
me situation IN Saloniki There they
are NJ their own country. at their re- |
'peclive posts of command in their
'ountfys army, already mobilized
una prepared for any emergency. |
iet i is thew who sit idle. Foreign