The Prime Minister, the French Premier, and the Italian Foreign
Minister, at a conference in Downing Street on Thursday, December 2nd, agreed to dispatch a warning to Greece. The Allies had, they said, no wish to interfere with the internal affairs of Greece, whose interests they had favoured. "But they feel bound," the message continued, "to declare publicly that the restoration to the throne of Greece of a King whose disloyal attitude and conduct towards the Allies caused them great embarrassment and loss can only be regarded by them as a ratification by Greece of his hostile acts." The return of the ex-King Constantine would "create a new and .unfavourable situation" in the relations between Greece and the Allies, who would hold themselves free to act as they thought best. Mr. Bonar LaW, after reading the message to the House of Commons, said that the Allies would not resort to "hostile action in the sense of force." On Monday the British Minister at Athens announced that the unexpended balance of the British loan of £10,000,000 to Greece would be withheld. The French loan to a similar amount will be cancelled. -
