The Cordova daily times., 1916-08-16
GREEK DEP J Y APPEALS TO
 AMERICA

chamber of deputies, and former Greek minister to Washington, aftel conference with the leaders of tht late government, has issued a state ment addressed to the Associated Press and embodying the point O view of the Greek Conservative party regarding the recent intervention o the powers in Greek affairs. The statement is issued in English
 "We have been profoundly humili ated that those whom we have always considered the protectors of our ma | tiOnal life and of our independence should have succeeded, by threaten ing the use of brutal force, in inter vening in the internal affairs of our country
 "Strong in the conviction of our right, 1t is our duty to point out, the cold facts as they are, not only to get the great neutral powers of the world among which America holds so promi nent place. but also through the mo. dium of the American press, to point out the same facts to the conscience of the liberal people of Great Britain and to the gallant French nation so imbued with the immortal principles of 179S. We cannot believe that the people of these two countries have q full knowledge of the attempt upon our constitution, our national liberty and our independent political existence made by the governments of France and Great Britain and their accredit- ed representatives in Greece.
 When two years ago Austria, by her ultimatum to Serbia, demanded in addition to other claims that rep resentatives of her judiciary sit be- side the Belgrade judges in investigat- ing the crime of Serajevo, the whole world cried that Serbian freedom was being abolished. and world war seemed justified by this trampling of a small nations rights by one of the great powers of Europe, when later on Belgian neutrality was violated, Great Britain thought herself justi- fled in taking arms against Austria's ally in defence of the rights of a weaker nation.
 "Throughout this colossal carnage all the neutral nations have repeated ly told that this is a war for the liber- ation of mankind from the threat of German militarism, for the protection of smaller peoples from the encroach- ments of the stronger and more greedy nations. How, then, is it possible that the people of Great Britain and France or that the great Americ' ptopic ohouiu dppioNt the HA5h handed methods by which the fiber ties and independence of the Hellenic people were abolished by few strokes of the pen of the allied ministers in Athens?
 The demands of the three powers signatory to the note of June 21 are known. Chief among them are the dissolution of the Greek parliament and the proclamation of new elections We Greeks are so constitutional peo- pie that even while protesting against the manner in which these new cleo tions have been forced upon us, we would nevertheless respect the nation al verdict of the polls if, as is stated in the entente ultimatum, the cleo tions take place after the Greek cleo tors have returned to normal condi tions of life
 But we ask the impartial judgment of America if a foreign naval and military occupation of over half of Greece and martial law declared and maintained throughout Macedonia constitute such normal conditions of life as will permit the free electors of Greece to perform their duties as citizens uninfluenced by the presence in Greco of the allied troops, or if de- puties chosen under these circum- stances can honestly represent the will of the nation expressed unham- pered by the influence of foreign bayonets.
 Would not elections held in Bel gium today under the heel of German 1 soldiery or in Serbia under the con trol of the Austrians and the Bulgar ians be hailed throughout the world as farcical? How then is the case of Greece any different from these?
 Since the beginning of the wal Greece has been benevolently neutral towards the allied powers - not jus simply neutral. One might say with