GREECE AND THE ALLIES
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR]
Sm,—Your Special Correspondent in his article on the " Greek Dictatorship " writes " Had Greece intervened, effectively and in time, on the side of the allies during the Great War, that intervention might have been so decisive as to have ended the conflict years sooner."
As a matter of fact Greece offered to enter the War on the side of the Allies in August, 1914, before the advance of the German army had been checked at the Battle of the Marne. The offer was refused by the Allies. The perfectly •incom- prehensible policy of the Allies (England, France, and Russia) —while Servia was an active ally, and Greece was our friend— was to shower all our favours on Bulgaria, at a time when she was actually arming herself to join the enemy ! Hence the tragedy of the Dardanelles and the long-drawn agony of a War that ought to have ended " years sooner." But the fault is not that of Greece, but of the Allied Governments who rejected her first offer.
D. R. POTHERINGHAM (Hon. Sec. The Byron Society).
Charing Vicarage, Ashford, Kent.
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