M. Venizelos has left Greece, having failed in his task
of reconstruction and conciliation. He admitted that he was making no progress, and that his health was unequal to the strain. It is a sorrowful ending to a career which has had many aspects of brilliance. Recent events in Greece show up the instability of the nation in a lighter light than ever. Scarcely more than a fortnight ago the Assembly, by an overwhelming majority, refused to depose the dynasty ; but the League of Officers, which M. Venizelos had nominally abolished, has not only come to life again, but has got to work again. The result is that M. Papanastasiou, the leading Republican, has formed a Ministry. It was he who moved the Bill for the abolition of the dynasty that was so heavily defeated a fortnight ago, but he now seems to have little doubt that he will be able to induce the Assembly to vote as decisively the other way. All of which provokes one to say that the decision of the Assembly is not of much value one way or the other.
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