New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-20
GREEK SUPPORT OF CONSTANTINE
Ninety-6ve Per Cent Of the People Support
Their King, II Is Declared

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SIR In leading editorial To- to.dsrs r..t
une you state according 90 informa,ior d.
coived from Rome that King Constantine Win,
be dethroned and that the Duke of Ao.,, .a,
succeed 20 the Greek throne and ftst b..
Greek government win join .ts fortunes wiz.
the Allies
u BE- evident from your article chat ,,.
are grossly misInformcd AZ b, cors...,..
In Greece Perhaps BE- viii rurpr.s, ... Il.
know that over % per cert ~ tbe Gree.
people indorse the attitude ~ King Cor.,.,
tine
You must be- VOL aware that Verr,f,,
has the full support % thc Entente and ,s,,
nearly the entire new Greece .s under Al.,l
domination, and chat millions ~ Grs,.,
live out Of Greece proper who are oil a.
liberty TO join the Allies or tho Ven.zeg..
ranks IN Salonica yet after fourteen month
Of preparation and unlimited funds and an
at the disposal % Verizelos less than 100
Greeks have joined the Allied armies 10 s
lonica, the majority Of them being either a
yenturers or fellows out Of work
Does this show much enthusiasm for ,b.
Entente cause? King Constantine could no,
last week in Athens n he did NOT have m,
support Of his people.
You say that yenizelos tried 20 go. Greco.
into the war on the side Of the Entente be-
fore Italy's entrance. Don't you gee chat 4
Venizelos succeeded in doing this Greco.
would have been overrun and annIh.afed b-
the Teutonic armies the same as serb.a1 A.
the time that yenizelos wanted Greece %
join the Entente the Allies had only tso.r
troops IN Salonica You sec what happened
TO Rumania and is 100000 so-caiIed bigs
class troops almost two years afterward
You claim that Great Britain, France ssi
Russia are the protecting powers OF Greece.
is that any reason why the Greeks should ),
forced into their war? The treaty between
Greece and Serbia does not say that Greco,
will aid Serbia in the event Of war with Ger.
many and Austria, but was purely a defensiy.
Balkan treaty. but even II it did 50 ssy.
Greek aid would have been absolutely usele,,
TO the Serbians at that time. and tho Serbisrs
know full we'll and they consider Greece
was perfectly right in not interfering.
You say Greece lost her great chance
when she failed 20 sustain Vcnizclos I'm grab.
bling more territory, but 7 always though,
that this was no war Of conquest But VIVA.
could Greece get? Russia must have tho
Dardanelles and Constantinoplc, Italy has Va.
Iona, which is the natural northern border
line Of Greece. and where not single InI.
ian business interest exists; besides her claim
TO Italia Irredenta she nov also holds AL
Of the Dodecanesus Islands. which arc
purely Greek. and the English have lately
annexed Cyprus. another Greek island
You say that Germany U'l not bo ir =
position 10 reward Greece after the war; Per-
haps not, but she will not do as much pluck.
ing as the Allies have already declared thai.
they will do.
You say that with a king acceptable 20
the Allies Greece might get footing In ASIA
Minor Let me tell you that Greece ViI
never be given this opportunity. Beside.
we want no part Of Asia Minor, FOR we Wit
not be able to hold Il.
What Greece wants is that her frontier h'
extended 70 Valona. Unfortunately Italy
there already. She also wants The Greek ..
ands that Italy has grabbed. as we'll o.
Cyprus. GEORGE IkA'ipl'
New York. Jan l.. 1917.