The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1920-11-19
THE FALL OF vENlzElos

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with thoughts of Aristides the Just.
No statesman of present-day Eu-
rope. and certainly none of modern
Greece, has served his country with
more genius or more devotion than
this now rejected leader Of the Hell.
lenes. To whatever issues, domestic
or foreign, his defeat in the recent
elections is to be ascribed, the fact
looms out that Greece has lost, at a
time when she could ill afford to spare
him, her ablest counsellor and trus-
| test guide, says the Atlanta Journal.
In this she is but repeating history
of her own, and rejecting the almost
worldwide popular temper OF the
times, We need not so back five cas-
turtles before the Christian era to find
lofty leaders suffering Punishment be-
cause of their justice or their fidelity
to 1.-The vision splendid Republics
were ever ungrateful it is said-and
monarchies, as Well, let it be added
/ ii'J oCANuOG I'll LOt Oh l..
but simply because Of human nature.
Today the crowd "all halls" Caesar;
tomorrow it acclaims Brutus, only to
howl for his head after Antony has
spoken. And each of us in the crowd
though not always of it, and though
repenting individually the follies We
do enmasse. Can Americans, in the
yet roubstious echoes Of their OWE
political smashing, chide Greece for
her treatment of the great Premier?
Or can the French, when they think of
Clemenceau? Or the Italians. remem-
bering Orlando?
1t seems a singularly ungrateful
fling of popular caprice, however, that
/ the very maker of the Greater Hellas
of today, the thinker and patriot to
whom, more than any other man of
their generation contemporary Greeks
are indebted should be thrust from
the helm at an hour critical for his
country and for sll Europe Six years
ago, even three years ago, Greece was
q third-class State, in point of material
strength and prestige Now she stands
but a rank below the great Powers
Within this short span her boundaries
have been widensd to something OF
their ancient dimensions: her STRAIT
esic position en- land ard seq has been
vastly improved, ant er outlook upon
the future incomparably frightened
These gains and prospects are all aa
tributable to the policies for which
Vcpizelos has stood, and largely tc
the leadership which he has given
Certainly if the policies OF his oppo.
nents had prevailed ard the wishes
of ex-King Constantine had come to
pass. there would have been no such
Hcllas as today, and no such hope foe
mankind.
but it was wholly upon dom. site
not foreign issues. that Venizelos was
defeated" the new powers at Athens
hasten to declare. at tho same time
avowing firm friendship for the En-
tente. May the event fulfill the profess
sion! Naturally, however, Britain and
France are rather anxious oN r davei.
opnents yet to come. Will Constan-
tine be restored to the throne? They
viii hardly allow THAT Do the rum
blings OF popular reaction and unrest
already heard here and there, pre-
sage a revolution, Nenizelos has call
ed upon his followers to accept the dis
appointing result in calm spirit and as
true democrats abiding by the major
ity's decision. VIII the unstoadines4
which, not improbabiy. may mark
Greek affairs for some seasons to ccmc
offer occasion for another outAash IL
the Balkan Under box? Ths end OF
renewed war in that fateful region
would ho altogether unpredictable
These and other dark questions com
riding upon Vanizelos' fall