The warrant for the arrest of M. Venizelos was issued
on Monday. The ridiculous evidence• in support of the charge is drawn from Venizelos's suppressed paper the Kiri= This paper never did
anything but support in able and often very eloquent language the Liberal principles of the Greek reconstruction of 1909—a recon- struction, by the way, which saved the Greek dynasty and restored the present King to his military position. Such unparalleled ingratitude on the part of the King might well have caused Words- worth to reconsider his assertion that gratitude had left him mourn- ing -more often than hearts unkind. The British attitude to this base affront has been expressed in Mr. Lloyd George's first speech as Prime Minister, and by the wise decision to recognize diplomatic representatives of M. Venizelos in London.
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