The King of Greece, who has been attending the German
manceuvres as the official guest of the German Emperor, has caused a considerable flutter in France and Greece by some remarks he offered about the great debt of the Greeks in the late war to Germany. He spoke of the use they had made of the "tried principles of Prussian strategy" and of their obligations to their German training. We cannot pre- tend to take the tea-cup storm that has followed very seriously. If people had more humour the diplomatic explanations which are now going on would be unnecessary. Everyone knows that the Greek army has been trained with splendid success by French officers. French officers and no others made the army that captured Janina and Salonica. The name of General Eydoux is one to conjure with from one end of Greece to the other. At the same time soldiers all the world over study German strategy. The principles of Clausewitz and Moltke are a bible of warfare. The King of Greece and many of his staff officers received their own military training in Germany. In these circum- stances the King of Greece could not very well have avoided some rhetorical flourishes likely to please his German hosts, though no doubt the acknowledgments to Germany were, in the circumstances, bestowed in a rather lop-sided manner. As King Constantine will soon visit France, he will have an opportunity of correcting the balance of gratification.
