New-York tribune., 1922-09-25
Dictator May
Be Called TO
Crecian Helm
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reyalists and most OF the people who
voted against Venizelos in the last
elections Moreover, the King and
Venizelos DO not pull together, and
hence the program for summoning nh
outsider by coup d'etat and pre-
senting him before the Assembly as
the choice of the King. II the Par
Lament refuses to recognize this new
leader the King can dissolve the
Assembly, and the royalists declare
that the threat Of dissolution may per-
suade the Assembly to hesitate
before rejecting the Kings selection.
Athens is in d state of serious polit-
ical tension, and the Greeks predict
that this move by the King may pre-
cipitate internal troubles e inspired by
leaders hostile to any extraconstitu-
tional measures, or by men who are
opposed to the assumption Of power by
General Metaxas. Several supporters
of Venizclos have been arrested and
the situation is filled with uncertainty.
Official circles to-day discredieed
statements that Kemal wished to send
an army into Thrace to save Turks
from massacre at the hands of Greeks
1t was pointed out that there are now
twenty Turks from Thrace who are
members of the Greek Parliament.
(rueltles III Ihrace Denied
eve are not mistreating the Turks
in Thrace, but are giving them every
consideration" these official sources
declared. The Greeks say the Turks
have an agreement with the Ukrainian
Bolshevists that will make the exten-
sion of Turkish dominion a menace to
the Balkans and to all Europe These
Greeks maintain that the next move by
,Y3y II
shevists, will be to drive out the French
in Syria and the English from Meso-
potamia.
One official said: "Let Europe be-
ware Of the present situation. 1t is
playing with fire. Rumania is threat
ened by the Bolshevists and Bulgaria
wants an outlet to the sea at nll costs
Greece must keep Thrace. For Thrace
we almost ruined ourselves financially
and we cannot give it up. Under in
spring leadership we believe that
Greece will fight to save it to the last
man"
An appeal to all the world against
the atrocities in Smyrna-"the organ
lied general massacres, plunder and in
eendisrism now in full swing in the
the powerful fleets Of the great pow
ers"-has been issued by the central
committee OF the Unredeemed Hell
lenes.
The massacres are declared to be
aimed at the entire Christian popula-
tion-Greek and Armenian--as we'll as
against the non-Turkish Moslem popu-
lations, following upon the retreat of
the Greek army.
Unredeefned Hellenes Issue Appeal
''We lay our protest before the areop-
agus of the nations constituting the
civilized world" says the committee.
The Agean Sea, that secular vehicle
OF SO many interests and ideals of CIV
llization and progress, is furnished by
the blood of innocent, peaceful human
beings, whose lamentations and cries
of distress have been unable to pro-
woke the immediate and effeassve inter
/ vention of the fleets of the Christian
states anchored in the harbor of
Smyrna. That eminentiy Christian city
that has fourished through her com
merce and industry is no more. She
is bathing in torrents of blood.
Let the civilized world witness and
duly stigmatize this horrible ca
tastrophe, this flacrant negation of the
rights of people, which Christian Euro
pean diple macy has countenanced and
| fostered. 1t has failed to prevent the
sanguinary Turk from perpetuating
under the very shadow Of the guns
Of its. own fleets that sinister and in
fernai work of determination OF an
entire civilized people in the historic
cradle which it founded and developed
ny its labors and it's civilization Of
forty centuries.
This unspeakable crime perpetrafed
agains. the dictates of humanity.
against social order and world peace
opens the gates to anarchy and is an
incentive to Moslem fanaticism against
the very great powers in their re-
speetive dominions.
In these dire circumstances we an
peal to all the civilized world Far
prompt and effective intervention.
we appeal ~ all the progressive peo.
Pies of the universe, to all the churches
that had been the repositories ef the
sacred rights OF mankind; we appeal 70
the, thinking ard working clasaes of
both hemispheres, to all the institu-
tons and organizations that have fo,
their object the safeguarding of human
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