The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-07-24
LIBERTY" vENIZELOs.

Christian Science Monitor: NJ Veni.
zelos returned TO Athens. The city WIS
in one Of its fiamboyant moods, such
moods as all cities are capable Of. but
no city more so than Athens. He was
received. Of course. with tremendous
enthusiasm. and, speaking from the
front Of the hotel, he announced TO the
cheering crowd the names Of the var
ious ministers in the cabinet which he
had just formed. The scene must have
brought some curious memories back
to NJ. Venizelos, for he was standing on
the very ground upon which, some five
years ago. he had supported King Con
stantine's father, and had insisted upon
the acceptance Of the constitution which
gave King George that very power Of
appeal which his son used only q few
years later TO defy the elected dele
gates of the people. and to bring Greecc
face TO face with the ruin in which she
stands today.
II will be the business Of NJ. Nen-
zelos 10 extricate Greece from that ruin
and II there is any man who is capable
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Cretan statesman. Had his advice been
followed, how different would be the
condition Of things today Servia.
Greece. Rumania, and Montenegro. all
acting together, and supported by the
power OF the allies. would have offered
very different resistance to the Aus.
trian armies 20 which which Serbia was
able TO offer alone. Three times the king
caused NJ. Venizelos 20 appeal 20 tho
people. and three times the people de.
cided in NJ Venizelos' favor and re.
turned an enormous majority for par
ticipation in the war. Three times the
King by an act Of arbitrary and uncon.
stitutional power. ignored that request.
He did even more than this he surren.
dered Greek stores and Greek troops
into the hands OF Bulgaria and German
and permitted the occupancy of Greek
ports and Greek territory by the enemy
whom NJ Venizelos' foresight and wis.
dom had done so much TO defeat only
two years before The Bulgarian fiay
floats today over Kavala and over tho
Greek frontier ports. Greek Macedonia
has been occupied by King Ferdinands
troops. and yet how different would all
this have been II King Constantine had
fulfilled his treaty with servia, and had
not regarded il as simply a scrap Of
paper.
II the king had fulfilled this treaty
no power on earth could have stopped
the Greek troops from occupying Epirus
and hosting the Greek flag over Avlona.
The great island OF Cyprus had been
offered to them by the British govern.
ment. and AZ the close OF the war ther,
historic islands of the coast Of Turkey
would have been added unto them the
In Asia: Samos. from whence Pythags
ras came; Rhodes. whose moles tho
Colossus once bestrode Patmos. 10 which
John the Apostle was banished Kos
the birth place OF Hippocrates and APPEL
les to say nothing Of the famous coast
including all that Is left Of the Cities OF
the Seven Churches and the great port
OF Smyrna. That is what Greece los'
when King Constantine placed the 20
vor OF Berlin above his pledged word
with servia, and Il remains 10 be seen
how much OF this disaster NJ. Venizelos
can retrieve. The task before NJ Vent
zelos is an immense one. He has "a
restore Greece first 10 the condition OF
unity OF purpose In which the wor
found a. As the truth gradually be
comes known this may perhaps not
prove so difficult task as might be
imagined. were Il not that NJ Venlzelos
political enemies have always exhibited
for him an almost incredible personal
antagonism. so great at times has been
this antagoaism that they appear "a
have permitted their party feeling en-
tirely 10 dominate their patriotism. AZ
a result he has only had 20 propose in
order that they may oppose, and oppose
with an unscrupulousness almost be-
yond belief The commissioned ranks
OF the army, largely composed OF men
trained In Germany, have, on the whole
from the beginning sided with the klng
but the rank and file have been equally
steady Nenizelist. for the Reservii
League Is a mere political creature
which owes its entire inspiration TO m,
organization which has been It's pay.
master.
NJ. venlzelos, however, has faced the