The ex-King Constantine entered Athens on Sunday, amid the applause
of excited crowds, and assumed the Greek throne once again. The Allied Ministers in Athens have been in- structed to remain at their poets, but to have no official relations with the King. It is a weak compromise between the French refusal to recognize the monarch who laid an ambush for French soldiers in December, 1916, and the Italian desire to encourage any Greek opponent of M. Venizelos. The King was ill-advised enough, in a message to the Greek nation, to profess that he had "very good relations" with the Allies whom ho did his best to injure, and that he wanted an alliance with " brave Serbia" whom he betrayed. King Constantine, like his German friends, does not understand the British temper. Wo can forgive an honest enemy, but not a pretended friend.
