On Friday week the National Assembly at Athens opened in
scenes of disorder When M. Rallis attempted to take the oath, the New Testament was snatched from under his hand and carried out of the Chamber by a group of Independents. The President was driven from the chair, and several free- fights followed. The most agitating question before the Assembly was whether it should be a revisionist or a con- stituent body. When it was summoned on the advice of M. Venezelos, it was unquestionably summoned as a revisionist body, with power to deal only with certain specified non- fundamental points in the Constitution. Last Sunday M. Venezelos, whom the Greeks have decided to hail as their hero and saviour, arrived in Athens. He was escorted from Crete by a Committee of Deputies. He has begun to exert the great informal power which popular favour has placed in his hands with firmness and good sense, and he certainly seems more capable, than any other public man of reducing the present chaos to some kind of order.
