Prince Paul, the younger son of ex-King Constantine, refused on
Saturday last to succeed his late brother, King Alexander, on the Greek throne. His father, he said, and his eldest brother had never renounced their rights. Prince Paul declared that he would only take the throne if the Greek people were to decide that they did not want the ex-King to return and that the ex- Crown Prince had lost his right of succession. The ex-King seeks through his son to put M. Venizelos in a difficulty. He forgets that Great Britain and Franc; as the Protecting Powers, com- pelled him to abdicate because he had violated the Greek Con- stitution, and that neither Great Britain nor France, who suffered so much through his treachery, will ever consent to his restoration. The Greek people are free to choose anyone else as their monarch, but the ex-King will never regain his throne.
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