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GRIMAULT'S
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GREEK KING'S FALL. THE ENTENTE POLICY.
ENSHAKEN FAITH IN GERMANY,
which
Lover, was specially introduced to check the foolish connubial entanglements of George the Third's brothers.
KINGS AND CONSORTS. nation, guaranteed it observance, and laid it down that "Greece, under the
MONARCHS WHO MARRIED Sovereignty of the Prince of Denmark,
ENGLISH WIVES, and the guarantee of the three Courts, BY DU E. J. DILLON.]
Forms a monarchical, independent, and Constitutional State." Further, the General Smuts suggestion that can King Constantine, the Prussian Fieldcussion by Great Britain of the islands futurs Kings should seek their bride Marshal, making a hurried bow to the of Corfu, Cipalonia, Zuute, Cerigo, Santa within the British Empire has been received Muura, and Paso carried with it ne an in some quartora as though it verged on world audience before which he so long implied condition the maintenance of heresy. Even the moderato opinion ha played a difficult part with rare ability the Constitutional régime, under the taken the line that the union of the
unlitical and emint nui acknowledged success, bar suddenly supervision of the three Protecting Sovereign with a subject would create com made his exis uuering n cheery na ferons.
ment that these States may legitimately puight be sunverave ai the senied order For he comûdently expects to return in land troops in Greece for the purpose of of things.
Both views are appareritly based on the triumph to his admiring subjects as soon protecting its integrity against Turkey
or Turkey's allies, and that it was their assumption that such a marriage would So far as the curtain has fallen on the last right, and might become their duty, to be a departure from tradition. act of the drama, and it would be rash enforce respect for the Constitution, trons this being, the ease, there are sum dismiss his anticipation with an un- should it be violated by a whimsical erous precedents to support the policy, believing smile--for other and more start: autocratic or misguided monarch like the write Mr. Edwin Olivời.
Only since the passing of the Royal ling Torrensts of his came true, despite Gorman Pring tho whose arbitrary the assurances of his adversaries that misrule provoked a revolution in Athens Marringe Act in 1779 has it become the they were but childish bluff. And for his and warranted his deposition and banish-rule for Kings to wed with Royalty. I Such were the arms ready for say the rule, because the Act itself does return to the throne he has taken due ment.
use in the arsenal of the Allies, and King not preclude a wider choice: it merely precnuthms. Over and over again we were informed that the bulk of the Greeks Constanting supplied their Governments prohibits members of the Royal Family were with Venizelos, and would not long with the strongest motives for employing marrying before thenge of twenty-five with delay this statesian's resumption of them. But they ahrank from coercion and out the King's consent under the Great power, this time as President of a averything that sucked of coercion. And Sent, er after that age without a year's Hellenic Republic. But the Allies, to some of their diplomatists were obsequions. notice to the Privy Council and the assent whose interest it would have been to see tess incarnate. Greece, they argued, bas of Parliament. And the measure, more
perfect right to determine her own his change affected, laboured hard and successfully to thwart the efforts of those policy, and it would ill-become the Powers, who were striving to bring it about, and that guaranteed these rights to violate
Hence we see that this limitation upon in the end they saw themselves compelled them.
Royal marriages is at most conditional to ineur the odium of direct and deep
upon the will of Parliament, and dries half. ranging intervention in the domestic
This doctrine of self-denial, however, back less than a century and a afairs of Greece. And through the
was misinterpreted and abused by the Prior to that chactment our Kings studi- intermediary of their High Commissioner, M. Joonart, France and Britain have Grecks, necustment to despise weaknessed their own inclinations or interesta in -day made an appreciable move in the and to severence strength. And the King choosing their consorte. and there is no was one of the first to misconstrue if instance of the offspring of Royal blood lirection of undoing the work which for nearly three yees they had been carrying When a certain Minister remarked to being excluded from the succession on a. considerable sacrifice of blood him one day that if he turned agains account of the inferiority of the maternal and self-respect. Since the days when the Protecting States, these, when vie descent. Inderd, as I shall show, even they proclaimed their determination torious, would inflict a tremendous penal-Lillegitimacy did not debar the descendante
all interference in Greece's ty on the entire Hellenic nation, "Not of princes from the throne. donicstic affairs they have moved with the 80, cried Constantine. France and
Their original England, who respect principles and History is so rich in instances thes swiftly moving events. pulley of um-intervention supplied all honour traditions, will never deal barshly shall select only the more conspicuous to three Governments with the basis of that by my people. As it was in the past, illustrate the point of this article. perfect harmony which, they assured their so it will be in the future. But Germans instance of Edward the Black Prince » peoples prevailed among them. They would not hesitate a moment to pulverite omitled because the captious may eli agrees, on the one hand, to do nothing us if i were against them that
Royal blood in fur veins. But I shall in- to frustrate King Tino's Germanophil turned. And that changes the situation that the English lady he wedded had
This reasoning was wi
elude the case of John of Gaudi and strivings, and on the other hand to forbid considerably.”
Magusaimity,
say, Venizelos, because he was their friend, answerable.
able illustration of the indifferento - to do anght that might baffle or check rather, Quixotic generosity, characterised Katharine Swynford as the most remark- the attitude of the Entente Powers to
of the English people those designs.
wards all the smaller neutral Btates-qt.
channels through which the blood Royal And now the second act has closed as the outset. The bean gente was in vogue the first opened, with half-measures of everywhere. And the bulk of the Greeks flowed. The children of this union were legitimated by the grace of their self-defence and whole-hearted confidence
father's nephew, Richard II. but were in their efficacy. In truth, the relations People, who abbor war and dread re-
expressly excluded from the succession. of the Allied countries towards Grecea prisals, were not slow to profit by it
a tragedy off They decideil, that their country world. Nevertheless, it was on the strength of his might be characterise as errors on the one side and neutral and conciliate
whom the King loved and the General effective side-thrusts on the other. Fox Staff worshipped. The army, or, rather, undisclosed reasons Allied diplomey its Teutoni-trained chiefs, fasured the systentically furthered those strivings
However, the nrst direct instance of a of Tine which were instigated by Berlin, Germans, and would fain take an active nad Tin turn cordially co-operated part in the campaign on the Kaiser's kingly union with an English subject is with Allied diplomacy for the same pur side. And the King, whose interest was that of Edward IV. Elizabeth Wood- per. The inspired Fres was thus alle absorbed and rewarded by the brilliant periodically to assert with truth that a strategy of the Berlin General Staff, ville was of undistinguished birth and
would have been delighted to realise their widow. yet, although the marriage perfect agreement existed between King wishes, but the circumstances were long caused a scandal at the time, the law of Constantine's Ministers and the Govern ments of the Entente. They might have so unfavourable that the Kaiser himself succession was held in such reverence that dissuaded him from undertaking anything the astute Henry Tudor took the precan padded, and the Central Powers Meanwhile, the Censor's heavy hand rash, and induced him to substitute wilestion to make the first daughter his wife. thrattled all who protested against for arms and cajolery for violence, with Richard III, niso chose an English con policy that was obviously prolonging the the results from which we are still suffer sort, Anne of Warwick, who had previ ing. Fien faith in the Snal triumph of ously been espoused to Edward, son of Vel. war and multiplying its victims.
German armor sustained Constantine in Henry VI and his brother Clarence deities of opposition to that policy we
the difficult, wearisome, and somewhat married another daughter of the king- maker. Henry VIII's matrimonial ruthlessly suppressed everywhere. For the humiliating task in which he was engaged. ventures belong to popular history; one point on which there was a touching and even now this our Press is alling suffice it to say that he wadded four of if tacit, agreement auxeng belligerents of out to him to believe and tremble, his is lady subjects. The doubt thrown both camps was the necessity of main
faith is still unsliaken. Hence he did not upon the legitimacy of his daughter Eliza. taining the Kaiser's brother-in-law on the throne of Greece and of avoiding abdicate; he merely quitted kis country both did not prevent her succeeding in
eschew
for a time.
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eldest son of John and Katharine that Henry VII rested his blood-claim to the theone
her order of precedence
everything that might wound his
The narrative of Tino's deeds and mis-
QUEENS IN THEIR OWN. RIGHT. susceptibilities. And it is only in the
Coming to more recent times the one thirty-fifth month of the war, with the deeds since the campaign began would utmost reluctance, after strong opposi make interesting reading. How. he out tion, protracted negotiations, animated withed Entente diplomacy time after time notable instance to be recorded is that of dobutes, and informal compromises, that and obliged it to pat him on the back James Duke of York and Anne Hyde the Governments of the Allied peoples after each of the humiliating reverses Although denth terminated the union some: have modified their tactics, run counter reminds one of some of the fabulous feats years before James ascended the throne. to their own resolutions, separated Con of Reynard the Fox. It is a marvellousoh daughters born of it become Quecas. stantine from his subjects, and deprived tale. But perfect unanimity marks the in their own right, two of the conditions his heir and successor of his rights. There desire of the Allied Governments that the upon which William of Orange was offer must have been very powerful motives for hidden hands for there have been more ed the English Crown being that his wife waiting so long before doing aught to than one-that shielded Constantine from Mary II. should be joint sovereign, and farther our interests, asserting our rights, the punishment he incurred shall remain that if they had no issue, the Crown whose claim, moreover, and that of any fulfilling our dutics. But they cannot, bidden. For it would, we are told, be should pass to the younger sister, Anne, we are told, be made knowh, or even against public interest and edification to hinted at. If M. Jonnart, or anybody reveal it. And there is no reason to children she might lease, was put before
second marriage. else, had then been sent as High Cum doubt this assurance of the Government. I hur of William's possible children by a It would serve, no useful purpose to
Our first two Hanoverian kings were issioner he could have removed the primary cause of all our failures in pass in review the various acts deemed Greece, and this at an early phase of the treasonable by the average man in Tinos arried before they arrived in England they had chosen German brides. Goorge 1. had long before divorced and impri struggle would have saved the lives of dealings with the various Cabinets, which supplant the Stuarts, and naturally. many brave men. The reasons which our served as a screen for his German ad- Governments now plead for their tardy at Gonnari, Shang hebrichsoned his luckless spouse for alleged intervention to day could with equal Zaimis, and tutti quenti, together with infidelity, and the Prince of Wales truth and greater force have been adduce their Ministerial colleagues, were pa bren a Benedick for nine years, Germina in time to rescue the Serbs, to paralyse screens behind which the Kaiser and Beth sympathies continued to mould the mur the Bulgars, to save the Roumaniaus, and mann Hollweg propounded their advice! monial taste of their descendents artii to help us to victory in the Balkans, and criticised the mode in which it was the Royal Marriage Act and the Accession Germany moved every lever to prevent executed. But Entente Ministers had Oath left little choice between a brids that victory, but was powerless to achieve motives too grate to be revealed to a from Germany and a morganatic alliance. her object without our own help. And curious public for taking no notice of As it is the wish of the nation to discard that help was accorded methodically and those eccentricities" of his Hellenic all things Tentonic, I may associato ny perseveringly, on grounds which we may Majesty, who, it was assumed could do self with General Smuts in the respectful no wrong. Indeed, the only visible and hope that our future rulers will elect to. not learn to-day:
tangible wrong perpetrated during these critical years had its origin in those rest less spirits who found fault with Tino and his protectors, and had to be repressed by patriotic censors. I remember one of my own many delinquencies in this matter which was promptly dealt with by a
The French Government has decorated vigilant and energetic Censor. In some article of mine ad conde bold to tell. the story of how Constantine had served an Alaskan dog with a “croix de giurial as a go-between for his Imperial brother in appreciation of the bravery demun. in-law, and endeavoured to seduce the strated by the animal at the front. The Serbian Staff and Government from its dog is one of many breeds from Alaska connection with the Entente, and to get which were sold to the French Governs. them to make a separate peace. As it ment by Mira. Darling, a resident of None. chanced the King made these overtures at Alaska. It is told that the dog thứ moment when his relations with the distinguished carried about 10 toms of Allied Powers were being described as abells and bullets to an advanced Franch unusually cordial," so that it was ob position, which was in a state of isolation, viously against public interest that his for four consecutive days and nights in "treachery should become known to the the teeth of a hail of shells from the
ations against which it was directed enemy positions. And they have lived in blissful ignorance
GREECE AND ITS CONSTITUTION.
No adequate explanation of this sudden change of tactics has been issued or hinted, no indeed could it be expected. For nothing calculated to weaken respect for public authority can be permitted by a Governa lusted-by-the spirit of self-preservation The French Govern ment, who are naturally less reticent than our own, have just made a statement on the subject through their spokesman, M Ribot. The French Premier lays HYPOPHOSPHITE OF LIME stress on the moral obligation imposed by the Treaty of 1884 on France, Britain, and Russin to safeguard the Constitu tional régime in Greece, and on the respect cherished by the Governments of these States for that moral obligation. He next declares that France and Britain are absolutely agreed that the Constituticmal principle has been vio lated by King Constantine, who cannot, therefore, be entrusted with the duty of applying this principle again.
Against this thesis there is nothing to be urged but much, may be said about the timeliness and thoroughness of its application, At the Conference of the year 1831 the Protecting Powers bal bestowed a Constitution on the Greek
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of it to this day. What the general public of Constantine, who impersonated Gree fails to grasp is the pith and essence and they devoted all their care and of Entente policy during the thirty-five solicitude to his well-being. If we as- months of the war, for if critics once similate that cardinal fact and approve understood that they would soon put it, we shall cease to blame Entente states very separate, act and incident in its manship for the acts which are its corol appropriate setting. The three pro faries. And of these the most momentou teetresses of Grecco Leenme protectresses turn upon Barrail's army, kaily Tele
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