Pueblo chieftain., 1921-05-16
GREECE TODAY
A Financial Mystery

peasants, casting a backward mcldn-
| choly eye upon the deserted farms.
A Financial Mystery
| Nor is the financing of the preser.
war any less desperate than ~ draft
of men. No one appears to know Just
how It IS being done, and rumors tly
of underground loans from variety
OF European powers who might b.
Interested In having tho Greeks in ihe
Unsettled part Of Asia Minor TINT
comes between Berlin and Bagdad. y
moro likely hypothesis offered in a dis
cusslon at the American Consulate WAC
, that the money is simply borrowed
from the national treasury without
hope OF repayment
Tho treasury o. already unable to
meet pressing domestic obligations.
Thirty thousand Georgian peasants
that Nenizelos had brought over 10
colonize an undcvelorsd portion of
Northern Greece were absolutely drop
that he could not pay. They are stnrv.
ing with death rate Of from 80 to loo
a day and naturally the country which
they had started to cultivate Will re-
main unproductive and waste.
And what use is being made or All
this as a political weapon hy tho Vent
zelistsr None At ell Tncy arc against
Constantine. but not against tho war
Tho return OF Constantine was the sig
nal for a now and tremendous effort
to crush the TURKS. The rrasor VAS
simple. lie desired great victories q
| consolidate him ON the throne. ITO
called out three more classes OF re-
serves and drew on the treasury with
the results skctrhed above. For these
| burdens the Ncnigtliats might. bo cN-
pccted to blame Constantine. miSht bo
cSpeCt-d 10 use every effort to have
the trhting stopped. Added to the hit-
ter party hatred. a hatred accentuttcd
| by oYcry EiarCe at NcniZclos' bullet
riddlcd house 1ri every thought Of tho
patriot In cxilc. one would expect Con-
stantine's mi~furtunCs in Asia Minor To
be used a. political weapon.
After the great defeat in March.
Venizolos left Paris for Italy. In spite
Of his dcnials II IN common belief thai
tho great Greek statesman Is prepared
| at any moment to return II Constnn
tine Is ovcrthrown. His return would
no, mean republican fern. OF govern
mcnt but another monarch subordinate
and controlled by the ) N'rlyc.os policy
| Yet Constantine holds on. and Vent
zolis;s whom you NEE; In the uniform
| OF the King whom thoy dosplsc. all
toll you the same story. They arc
/ h.trt and soul against the ktnE In
| Athcus. hut heart aud soul behind hta
work IN ASIA Minor And they explain
1t hy saying There We night not for
/ the King. but FOR O;r~c,c. for Greece
For Greccei" II Ia a cry OF ram
pant nauonalism mistakinE its owr-
/ ends. Far better Tor tho soldiers 70
| return and build up the shattered DIV,
business hy modern methods and hard
work. Far better for the efficient
iinancicrs to Straighton out their
tanslcs Far better to save what arc
left Of the Gcorglan peasants and set
thnm tilling the soil, So would think
/ the wcstcrner. perhaps lmpatientiy.
| But the wcstcrncr undertakes the fccl-
ing Of nationality that desires Greater
Greece. that desires all that Greece
once had. that exaggerated racial tcci-
ing which, has mot yet expended itself
In tho Balkans Not only has ID not
expended itself but II keeps on Eruw-
ing, and any solution will have to take
account uf that fact.