For seven months more, Constantine trifled with the Allies. Upon one occasion French troops were fired upon. The soldiers of Constantine encamped at the very base of the Acropolis. Their obvious intent was in case a single stray shell from an English or French battleship should hit that sacred hill, to proclaim to the neutral world that what Germany was doing at Rheims, the Allies were doing at Athens. But finally, after America had come into the war, France and England took the matter in hand. On June 11, 1917, Constantine was called upon to abdicate. He yielded next day. He was permitted to leave Greece, taking his eldest son with him. His younger son, Alexander, came to the throne. zelos returned to Athens. Eight days later Greece entered the war. Venizelos returned to a sorely divided people. He set about to raise an army. At the time of the final drive two hundred and sixty-five thousand Greeks faced the Bulgars. When the war ended, Greece had about three hundred thousand men under arms.

Veni

Within a fortnight after the signing of the armistice at Salonika, Venizelos was in Paris, and within a few days more, in London. In both these capitals, even in October, 1918, the popular opinion was that the war would continue another six months. In the mind of any one coming out of Macedonia, however

during those days, there was no doubt as to the outcome of the Great War, nor of the imminence of its ending. During the last battle of the war in the Balkans, the Bulgarians had maintained their positions; then in the night they withdrew, they fled, they surrendered. Their whole resistance crumbled at the moment it had seemed well-nigh impregnable. The completeness of their exhaustion told a story of a similar exhaustion on the west front, for if Germany had had a division, a regiment or a battalion to spare, she would have used it to prevent such an overwhelming collapse of her ally. That being the situation of affairs, the centre of interest transferred itself from the battlefield to the Cabinets of Paris and London. Thither, Venizelos betook himself.

The part taken by America in the War and the acceptance of President Wilson's Fourteen Points, as the basis of the general armistice, had no doubt led the world to hope that the impending peace conference was to be different from any other peace conference. Representatives came from small countries armed with arguments, legalistic and moral, in the confident expectation that claims based on reason and right at last were to prevail over claims supported merely by force. Everyone knows now how little attention such arguments received at the peace conference.

Lloyd George came to the conference pledged by campaign promises to bring the Kaiser to trial, and to make Germany pay the cost bill of the war. Wilson was committed to the creation of a League of Nations. Clemenceau was bent on the protection of the new French frontiers. The treaties provided for all these things. Each of the three accomplished a paper success, but each of them suffered a dismal failure. The Kaiser is still at large and untried. The costs of the war are being paid by the victors. The League of Nations exists, but the United States is not a member. The Treaty for the protection of France was not even submitted to the American Congress. Justice to weaker nations, self determination and "open covenants openly arrived at" were all sacrificed to the accomplishment of hollow victories.

It is too soon to appraise the actual accomplishment of the Peace Conference for good or for evil. Needless to say, to a war-sick world the peace conference proved a tragic disappointment.

When Constantine left Greece, in June, 1917, he went with his family to Switzerland and took up his abode in Geneva.

In 1920, a series of unforeseen events brought him once more to the fore. To actresses, politicians and princes in exile, publicity is of prime importance. On January 31, 1920, Prince Christopher, Constan

tine's brother, married the widow of an American millionaire. The marriage, was recognized by the Royal family as entirely regular. This union brought to the Royal family more notoriety than it had known since June, 1917.

On the other hand, while Venizelos had been amazingly successful and had been elected to one of the five seats in the Council of the League of Nations, there had been murmurs at home at the prolongation of the war, the increase of taxes and the postponement of elections. The treaty at Sevres was signed on August 10, 1921. An election was immediately called, to be held in November.

On August 12th, two former Greek officers attempted the assassination of Venizelos. He was shot as he was entering the Gare de Lyon at Paris. He was hit in the shoulder and thigh. The reaction was instantaneous and most unfortunate. A hostile demonstration against the Royalists in Athens resulted fatally to a young Greek writer of great promise. An incident that should have excited sympathy for Venizelos, was thereby turned against him by the excesses of his friends.

The tragic reign of Alexander suddenly was brought to a tragic end. He was bitten by a pet monkey and on October 25, 1920, died from the wound. So matters stood on the election day, November

14th, 1920. At the election, the Venizelists were defeated by a substantial, though not overwhelming majority. On November 16th, Venizelos and his Cabinet resigned.

On December 5th, a farcical plebiscite was held to determine the recall of Constantine to the Greek throne. An overwhelming majority declared for the King. On December 19th, Constantine returned to Athens amid a great fan-flare of rejoicing. All the forms were observed. Greece had her King again but she paid dearly for the glamour of the restoration.

In statescraft Venizelos succeeded beyond every promise he ever made, but his argument to the Peace Conference, echoing as it did the unhappy jargon of the Balkans and the catch phrases of the American President, made an impression that was unfortunate. He has been called an Imperialist. Venizelos' policy has been something quite different. He has fought for a generation for the redemption of Greek people from the servile and degrading oppression of the Moslem Turk. That certainly is not Imperialism. .

While abroad, Venizelos has been thought by his critics to be an Imperialist. At home, he has been charged with being too radical. His social and political reforms in the laws of Greece brought them abreast of the laws of other parts of Europe. Greece,