El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-02-23

LNo pIoDleInS on our hands here IN
Nreece-an internal one and an eXter-
nal one. The entente powers have made
! the fundamental mistake of consider
ing them both as one. They said to
'Venizelos is the strongest man in
/ Greece and he is heart and soul with
] us lie can deliver the Greeks when
/ ever he wants 10. Let US back Vent
/ Greek army he viii turn il over to us
Can't Deliver Greeks.
/ Wen. they were wrong as 1 think
you have seen for yourself since YOU
have been here VenizelOs was per-
. maps the strongest man in Greece. as
1 they thought. But the moment he
Z tried 10 turn over the Greek army TO
{ the entente as If We were a lot OF
! mercenaries, he became the weakest
man in Greece and the most despised.
! For in Greece no man delivers the
Greeks They decide their own des-
: TIMES as q free people and not Eng
I land, France and Russia put together
! can change them, neither by force
J Of arms nor by starvation. And they
nave tried both As for NeniZelos him
self-you had man once in your coun-
try, very great man who had even
been president of the United States.
who planned To split the country in
two and. set himself up as a ruler in
the part he separated from the rest
our majesty means Aaron Burr
Greeks Call VenizeIos Traitor.
fIrtlSelN- but ne only plotted TO
90 tnlng which he never accom-
plished- NeniZelOs. with the assistance
Of the allied powers-snd he never
could nave done it without them--has
succeed Tor the time being IN the
same Kind of sedltious enterprise
You called Aaron Burr a traitor. Well
that's what the Greek people call
NeniZelos
The impression has been spread
broadcast that Venizelos stands in
Greece for liberalism and his opponents
for absoluIism and militarism. II is
Just the other way around Nenizelos
stands for whatever suits his own per-
sOnal book His ,dea of government
is an absolute Dictatorship sort o.
Mexican government, 1 take it.
Imposed VIII on People.
When he was premier he broke every
man who dared TO disagree with him
in his own party He never sought 70
express the Will Of the people he i'm
posed his Will on the people. TIL
Greek people VIII not stand for that
They demand a constitutional govern
ment in which there is room for two
parties, Liberals and Conservatives.
each with a definite program. as in
the United States or England or anv
other civilized country, not a personal
government where the only party di-
vision IS into Nenizelists and anti .
Nenizelists
The ~Anti-German- Idea.
This is one tnIng I wanted TO say
sO-called German propaganda in Z
Greece. The entente powers seem to 4
have adopted the attitude that every
body who is not willing to fight on I
their side must be I pro-German. Moth I
ing could be more false in respect TO 4
Greece There is a present resentment (
against the allies in Greece-and there |
is a good deal of 1t, especially since j
the blockade is due TO the allies them (
selves and not TO any German prOpa- |
ganda- The proof Of it is that when !
the so-called German propaganda was Z
al It's heiGht there was little or no nos /
tiity in Greece towards the allies L 4
has only been since the diplomatic rep
resentatives Of all the central empires /.
and everybody else whom the Anglo !
French secret police indicated as mimi ,
cal to the entente have been expelled I
from Greece and any German prOpa- !
ganda rendered virtually impossible +
that there has grown up any popular !
feeling against the ente-Ce-
silly Tyranny ExaSperates.
Part Of this is due TO the entente's (
Identification OF their greatest cause !
V it'll the personal ambitions OF Nenize- 1
les, but a great deal has also been due !
TO the very unfortunate handling of I
the allied control in Greece When 4
YOU write a personal letter of no possible /
international insLgnificance to a friend !
or relative here in Athens and post II I
in Athens and IL Is held a week, opened J
and half It's contents BACKED out, 1t ,
makes you pretty crOss-nOU only be {
% use II Is A44S p-alhdD4c y amy III q I
Tree country at peace with all the :
D7rld, hut because il is so silly For {
after all. if you want to plot with 4
man living in the same town you don't .
write him letter. You put on your Z
hat and go to see him.
Entcnte's Alterations Are Childish.
Half the people IN Greece have been Z
continually exasperated by just this
sort Of unintelligent control which has
iTritated the Greek people beyond any
telling But TO say that they are pro- I
German because they dislike having !
their private letters opened or their
homes entered without any legal au-
thority whatsoever is childish It is !
a vicious circle The entente takes eX-
ceptOnally severe measures because
trey allege the Greeks are prO-German-
The Greeks very Maturity resent the (
measures thus taken as would the
Americans or anybody else. The en-
tente then turns around and says I,
You see that proves that the Greeks
are prO-German as we suspected
Greece Is DisiIIusioned.
THE fact Of the matter is that there
Is even now less prO-German feeling
in Greece than in the United States,
countries. And there is far less anti
entente propaganda in Greece even now
than there is antl-Heilenic propaganda I
in England. France and Russia The
whole feeling of the Greek people to-
ward the entente powers today is one |
of sorrow and establishment They
had heard so much of this war for the
defence of little nations that il has !
been a very great shock to them to be
treated, as they feel, very badly. even
cruelty, for no reason and TO nobody's
profit
Entente Challenges Greece.
And more than anything else, after
all the Greek government and Greek
people have done to help the entente
powers since the very outbreak of the
war, they deeply resent being called
prO-German because they have not
been willing to see their own country
on the side Of Servia and Rumania,
which have been destroyed.
AS l have tried repeatedly TO point
out to the entente representatives. there
can only be one certain guarantee Of
The safety of the allied forces in the
Balkans as far as the Greeks are con
cerned-that is mutual confidence. The
assumption that every Greek is an en-
envy and not TO be trusted is merely a
standing challenge to every pOthead to
something irreparable-irre-
parable for Greece as well as for the
entente
Greece is Very Short of Food.
I have done everything / could to