All Englishmen admire the brilliant qualities and daring imagination of
M. Venizelos, whose career is one of the great romances of politics. From his native Crete the dazzling rebel emerged to become the saviour of the mother country, and almost to turn the Greek nation into one of the more considerable Powers of- Europe. But all that is in the past ; and the past cannot be revived. Most of his foreign friends must be wishing that he would now leave his record to speak for itself. For it is only too probable that his fresh incursion into Greek politics will mean disunion and personal bitterness. M. Zaimis had been doing very well for Greece. His economies were gradually washing out the indebtedness caused by the irresponsible Colonel Pangalos, and there seemed to be a fair prospect that Greece would enter upon an era of quietness and confidence such as she has never known before.
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