The Greek elections to the new Revisionary Assembly took place
last Sunday, and resulted in a triumph for M. Venezelos and his programme of regeneration. The Times correspondent says that M. Venezelos's Government will have a majority of over three hundred, or six-sevenths of the total number. Nearly all M. Venezelos's prominent opponents were beaten. In Thessaly the Venez.elist candidates were not so successful as elsewhere. The agrarian candidates apparently persuaded the peasants that it would be possible to expropriate the ]andlords,—a particularly dangerous policy, by the way, as many of the landlords are Turks, who are guaranteed security by Treaty. It will be remembered that when M. Venezelos came from Crete to act, or to try to act, as the saviour of Greece he risked his great popularity by resisting the demand that the first Revisionary Assembly should become a Constituent Assembly. The Assembly met as a Revisionary Assembly, in accordance with the perfectly clear original understanding with the King that it should be so, but the old Parliamentary hands made progress out of the question, and Id. Venezelos advised Dissolution. The King boldly accepted the proposal, and the new elections prove that he did not fly in the face of the country's wishes. M. Venezelos's strength of character is already proved. We sincerely hope that a. better day for Greece is now beginning.
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