20 JANUARY 1923, Page 2

Last week the eventful career of Constantine of Greece came

to an unhappy end in an exile's death. For us the " Tino " of the Great War blotted out the Con- stantine of Janina and Salonika. And yet, seen from a purely Greek point of view, there is no reason why history should remember him more as the man who backed the wrong horse in 1915 and thus rent his country into those two irreconcilable factions, Venize- list and Constantinist, and who lost an Asian Empire in starving his country to win it, than as the young prince who added the great Thracian city to Greece. Con- stantine and Venizelos are figures that a small nation need not be ashamed to have produced in one generation. Yet either, if the other had not been there, might have saved, instead of ruined, his country.