The Eclipse of the Venizelists The formidable Greek insurrection has
run its brief but destructive course and ended with the complete discomfiture of the rebels in Macedonia, the surrender of their ships, and the flight of the leaders on land and sea. The failure of this lamentable attempt to settle a political feud by resort to civil war brings also the splendid career of M. Venizelos to an ignominious close. The liberator of Crete, the reorganizer of Greece, the maker of the Balkan League, the diplomat who aggrandized his country by bringing it into the War and winning the gratitude of the Allies, has been unable to disentangle himself from the faction:strife which divided Greece between Republicans and Royalists: In resorting to violence his hand was presumably forced by the military leaders. But he cannot escape the responsibility of sanctioning the insurrection when it had started and putting himself at its head ; and it remains to be seen how far his private negotiations paved the way for the suspicions, recriminations and troop movements in Bulgaria and Turkey which put the stability of the Balkans to the test. Thus, the man who above all others was the maker of modern Greece comes to a tragic end, in disgrace and in exile.
