It is natural that a distinguished police official and criminal
investigator like Sir Basil Thomson should take pleasure in disentangling an almost baffling network of intrigue which trammelled the relations of Greece and the Allied Powers throughout the War. It is the aim of Sir Basil's The Allied Secret Service in Greece (Hutchinson, 21s.) to show that the position was far other than was commonly supposed ; that " Tino " was a much maligned person and Venizelos the author merely of (in the words of M. Clemenceau) un gdchis tyrannique, which culminated eventually in the Greek downfall in Asia Minor. The villain of the piece (so the author main- tains) was a French intelligence officer who deliberately so cooked the situation as to set up in the minds of the Allies an irremovable prejudice against the Greek King.
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