22 DECEMBER 1923, Page 2

On Tuesday the King and Queen of Greece were -

expelled from their -country. -It is difficult to know how far to sympathize with the young King, who, ever since _the flight of his father, has been a prisoner rather than IL Sovereign. He may find -in Rumania (his wife's home) the happiness which he certainly has not enjoyed at Athens. The Greek Revolutionary Government which has been in power vversince the Greek rout in Asia Minor has -always been suspicious of the young King George, and the recent Royalist revolt under Genemal Metaxas made him more than ever-suspected. It *probable that he had nothing whatever to do with that movement, but 'he sacred as though he had.