THE NEW EUROPE
BARON SIDNEY SONNINO
security within the frontiers of the Italian race, and have gained for himself the honour reserved for those who, in serving their own country, serve humanity and vindicate the high ideal of liberty for it and for others, which Cavour, Garibaldi and Mazzini taught the world to revere.
C. R.
The Growth of Anti-Venizelism
At last the situation in Greece has reached a crisis in which further delays are impossible. The moment therefore seems opportune for a consideration of the origin and composition of the forces that to-day control official Greece. Much has been written about these forces, and their growth has been variously attributed to German gold, party spite, King Constantine's Germanophilism, and the mistakes of Allied diplomacy, and it may be worth while to consider how far these and how far other reasons have been responsible for the attitude of the Athens Government and a great part of the Greek people to-day.
Till eighteen months ago there was no such thing as Germanophilism in Greece. Greece was united by every reason of history, geography, economics and sentiment to the three Powers who had assisted her in her war of Liberation and guaranteed her independence in 1830, her constitution in 1863, and her financial soundness in 1898. To these Powers, together or severally, she owed the gift of the Ionian Islands, the annexation of Thessaly, the autonomy of Crete, the support of Greek rights in Northern Epirus. She had, in common with Russia, the Eastern Orthodox faith; with Britain, the belief in sea power and overseas trade; with France, the principles of political and social culture which, handed down from Greece and Rome, have found their chief modern devotees in the French people. Of Germany Greece knew no more than that her first King Otho with his stiff Bavarian retinue had come thence and returned thither; and that Germany favoured the Turks, whom she had supported in the war of 1897, and the Bulgarians, in whom she saw her natural allies in the Balkan department of "Berlin-Baghdad." On the outbreak of the European War every responsible newspaper in Greece took the Allies' side. Germanophilism in Greece was confined to
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