* * * * I happened one day this week
to be turning over a volume of Colonel Repington's diaries—covering the year 1921. It included a record of a visit to Greece ; one or two sentences would be no bad guide to anyone wanting to get to the root of today's troubles. For instance: "It seems that waiters and cooks are or were Venizelists and all maidservants Monarchists. School children of three or four are divided into the same parties, and have battles. Greece lives on politics." "[M. de Billy, the French Minister at Athens, said] the Greeks were very subtle, and trained tb politics from infancy. They ate, drank, thought and dreamed politics."
I said that the wish of England was to see all Greece pulling together, and that she was too small to allow herself the luxury of political divisions, exile, imprisonments, etc." Unfortunately, Greece seems no more able to forgo the luxury now than Twenty-four years ago.
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