18 DECEMBER 1920, Page 3

The ex-King Constantine arrived at Venice on Wednesday, and went

on board the Greek cruiser Averoff,' in which he is returning to Athens. The Italian Government gave him a royal reception, as if to show that they did not agree with their British and French Allies in disapproving of the ex-King's return. Italy has always been hostile to M. Venizelos, because Greece under him promised to become too powerful. But the Italian Government should not have signed the Allied Note of December 2nd—regretting that Greece had recalled the ex-King who was an enemy of the Allies—if they had not meant to act in concert with Great Britain and France.