13 MARCH 1915, Page 2

If that be so, the new Ministry has been put

in to mark time rather than attempt any absolute change in Greek policy. Some observers, indeed, are convinced that when the proper moment arrives M. Venezelos himself will return to carry out an active policy. For ourselves, we shall only say that it must be presumed that the Greeks know their own business. The Allies are certainly not going to bully Greece out of a policy of neutrality if it should turn out that she has deliberately chosen that course. We can hardly believe, however, that so ambitions a Power as Greece will be content to forgo her claim—for that is what neutrality must mean—to take part in the final settlement of the Turkish Empire.