The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1917-02-23
allies TREAT GREECE
AS BADLY AS GERMANS
HAVE TREATED BELGIUM
KING Constantine
TELLS Of ABUSES

ATHENS, Jan. 14.-(By Staff Cor
respondent of the Associated Press.)
King Constantine received the Asso-
ciated Press correspondent in audience
this morning just before he left for
America.
II am sorry you are leaving u.s."
King Constantine began abrutly. Il
don't believe that there is a man or
woman in Greece who does not feel
very profoundly what great thing it
has been for us during this most crit
ical period in our national history to
have q correspondent of the AssOciat-
Cd Press here to tell the world with
absolute impartiality of the truth of
what is taking place. They tell me,
h0wever, that a good many of your
@eolegrams to the Associated Press
Aever got through the censOrs." The
king laughed a little ruefully You
have nothing on me" he added, meth
er do mine"
THE most ridiculous, the most out
hgeOus nonsense about what is hap
pening in Greece is published daily
IN the European press presumably
written by journalists who are not
even on the spot to see the facts for
themselves. And when my govern
ment sends official denials of them the
European newspapers will not even
publish the denials.
After all, all we ask is fair play.
But it seems almost hopeless to try
TO get the truth out of Greece to the
rest of the world under present cir
cumstances. We have been sOrely
tried these past two years and we
don't pretend to have always been an
xgels under the constant irritation OF
the ever-incPeasing allied control OF
every little thing in our own private
Nfe-telegrams, letters, police, every
thing
Moreover, by taking an active hand
In our own internal politics, England
and France especially have succeeded
Ia alternating an admiration. sympa
thy and a devotion towards them or
the part of the Green people that al
the beginning of the war, was virtually
an ultimatum tradition. 1 quite un
derstand how those responsible fol
such a result seek to excuse them
selves by exaggerating the difficulties
they have had to contend with II
Creece-by talking about Greek trach
s sery and the immense sinister organ
? t1Ation of German propaganda tina
has foiled them at every turn and So
on. The only trouble with that is tha
they make us pay for the errors o
their policy. The people OF Greece ar
paying for them now in suffering ant
death from exposure and hunger
while France and England starve IL
out because they have made the mis-
take of assuming that their man Ven
txelOs could deliver the Greek arm,
and the Greek people to the entent
powers whenever they wanted to US
Greece for their advantage, regardless
OF the interests of Greece as an IN
dependant nation.
Thefe are just two things about ou
desperate struggle to save Ourselve
from destruction that l am going t
ask the Associated Press to try t
make clear to the people of America.
The first point is this: We hav
TWO problems on our hands here l
Greece-an internal one and an exte1
nal one. The entente powers hav
made the fundamental mistake of cor
sldering them both as one. They sal
TO themselves: 'VeniZelOs is tn
strongest man in Greece and he
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