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1936
A KING
December 19, 1928, George
Cleave of absence"
and left Greece "provisionally," as he put it. Business went on as usual that day and nobody
RETURNS.
By an Englishman in Athens
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WEDNESDAY, Nov. 27, 1935..
SLIPPERY PATH.
OF SANCTIONS
The fact that the Committee
of Eighteen has postponed its meeting, at which the question of imposing an oil embargo on
stop him. Now, nearly 12 years
| later, he has returned..
The Phemblem of the King they ejected twelve years
Republic, has been ousted by the Royalist Crown, and the Averoff, the cruiser which took part in the Revolution last March, hna brought him back.
In those 12 years Greece bas known
every vicissitude- stormy changes of government," military coups, abortive revolu tions, oven a Dictatorship,
»
THE gentlemanly interchanges
between Conservative' and Labour in England bear no re- lation to política in Grecce, where a year or two ago a deputy in Parliament picked up a chair and threw it at a former Prime Minister and the latter threw it back hard enough to dislocate his own shoulder.
to
English people find it difficult
understand the internal affairs of such a country. And indeed it is next to impossible for anyone who has not lived in Greece to understand. But the situation becomes clearer if two facts are grasped.
Greece's
is
the
sult, polished shoes and a hom- burg.bat.
The country. doctor is prob- ably a local peasant who has
studied medicine and come home
the to practise it. The priest is a
ago,
peasant, too, no less ignorant than rest, who tills soil
the site dining and the Boll
cards in the village cafe like any one else.
OUTSIDE Athens, Salonika,
Patina, Corinth and Cala- mata there are few towns worth mentioning; the rest of the coun try la agricultural. In the villages they lead a hard life, a life near the soil, austere and primitive, with occasional out- bursts of gulety. They live frugally on black breid, olives, “ vegetables, resined wine, with meat, perhaps once a wook. In Lent they fast strictly and look forward to eating lamb at Easter.
The slightest tax, the slightest Increase in the price of flour means serious hardship to people living with so little margin. So when the peasant considers the idea of monarchy the first thing he asks himself is whothar be can afford a king. The popular success of the Restoration in fact depends firstly on tho financial state of the country..
But there is another factor to be remembered, Greece won her independence only a century ago; she is still proud of it.
The first is that Greece is 8 1. x really ruled by her armed months* forces. No Greek Government. Dictator, can stand for long unless Bup was a ported by the Army or the General,
In remote country districts THE middle classes in
the peasant still fells the story Navy. The Army is not, as in
The
Athens bankers and England, the servant of what second
merchants, doctors and for the first time. And this of Byron as if it were boing told ever Government may be in fact
lawyers and professional political independence is re- power; it is potentially master. that
classes in general-in flected in a personal independ- Practically every revolution, Greece is
cline to Republicanism. every coup of recent years essential-
ence. The country people are Among these are the perfect hosts; the poorest vil- (there have been plenty) has ly a demo-
intelligentsin, people inger sende for his wine, the been engineered by the armed
cratic forces. And again and again it
shepherd offers a cup of fresh country, is a soldier who takes the lead and a in politics. General Kondylis, that, The visitor to Athens may read Aldous Huxley and D. H. social inferiority.
country of peasants at movements outside Greece, who milk with an air of magnificent courtesy; there is no sense of the present Regent, began life suppose it to be like any other Lawrence and even T. S. Eliot.
This is the truly democratic private. Two colonels
European capital; J little Some are wealthy. Some, spirit, and it is seen through- more ramshackle perhaps, particularly among the learned out Greece. In it is to be found made the Revolution which de- posed Constantine. Pangalos, but otherwise much the same. professions, are so badly paid an explanation of the instability The visitor secs only the cafes, as to be scarcely better off than of Greek political affairs. It the restaurants, the shops with the clerks and artisans and has to be reckoned with in the
29 九
are aware
who
of Ilterary and artistic
Italy is to be considered, is in- NOTES OF THE DAY their French silks and English manual workers who make up business of government.
dicative of a feeling that an ex- tension of the present sanctions might possibly lead to grave consequences. It is even sug- gested that Italy might regardi
an
SIGNIFICANT
SILENCE
ETHIOPIAN FRONT
said those who had prodicted П
or
The Very Idea!
OUR HOLIDAY
When We Recuperated In The Country
By Ed Kelly
woollens. And it is true that the third section of society.
All Kings of Greece have. Athens has a vencer of smart
been democratic Kings, mixing ON society.
BUT whatever social barriers freely with their people. For There is a small section may appear to divide the nong but a democrat would be of rich Greeks, n good classes, at heart nearly every tolerated by this charming, un- It now appears that the wise many of them from Ale Greek is a peasant. And not ruly and individualistic nation.
Constantinople, only at heart, in origin as well. oll embargo as a military ones, who adduced from the Italian xandria
silence that all was not well with
are philanthropic and M. Taaldaris, the last Prime | S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. penalty, bringing about a state the Ethiopian campaign, were mis- Tatlo
of war with the 'Powers impos- taken. It was suggested that be- patriotic, ready to devote their Minister, comes from a village ing it. There can, of course, be no cause there were fewer reports of wealth to the furtherance of art near Corinth. The exiled Gen- questioning the right of the successes for Italian arms that the and learning in Greece. They eral Plastiras, who has made invading armies had come up aro-cosmopolitan, speaking successful and unsuccessful re- sanctionist nations, under the against a resistance not entirely French (even amongst them- volutions and had a reward put
that the League Covenant, to apply an anticipated and
Italian selves) and excellent English." on his head, is of peasant stock. losses had been severe. Because embargo on any commodity; the the Italians were silent, it was be-
In earlier years they used to Look back a few generations, only question is whether it lleved that the Ethioplans claims spend the summer in "Europe" and practically the whole "arie- would at this stage be expedient of repeated victories on all fronts (Greece has not quite got used tocracy" disappears. to expand the list. Throughout had some real foundation. At last, to the idea that she is a part of Always the veneer of sophis-
herself); Europe
nowadays, tication is thin. An Army the controversy over the imposi-collapse of the Italian offensive, with the exchange against them, officer will go by train carrying tion of penalties on Italy it has Mussolini's generals had discovered they stay in Greece. They are over his arm a loaf made in the been realised that the path of that their mechanised armies might profoundly snobbish. They can shape of a huge ring. At a sanctions is a slippery one, al-conquer the Ethiopian soldiery, but not mix with any class except wayside station he, may put his ways involving the danger of could not combat the natural de- their own. They cannot sit in a head out of the window and buy SINCE we saw you last week, hostilities. Indeed, sanctions fences of the country, the rain and cafe or attend a popular enter a string of fish for dinner.
we've been staying with have been described as the first the mud and the desert. To some tainment. Their women can In the country the only social some friends in the New Ter- cousin of war. Be that as it extent these deductions may bo
correct; no doubt there have been scarcely be seen on foot in the division is between the peasant ritories, out Fanling way. may the League members un-reverses of a minor mature which jetreets of Athens certainly not who wears rough working They said to us: "You look animously agreed to take action even the Italians must have expect in the country.
clothes or national costume and against Italy, once she was deed, since they are fighting against This class wants a monarchy the "black-coat," the peasant run-down. Why not take a run clared an aggressor, and, as the wily and dangerous enemies,, men for social reasons. But it forms who no longer works with his up some time?" So we went. British reply to the Italian Note proved in battle and the hunt. only a tiny section of opinion. hands and has bought a dark points out, Britain feels bound to But the Italian silence that silence assent to the decision "and to which to some was almost an ad- mission defeat to us has an- accept the consequences which other and less obvious significance. must inevitably ensuc." As we Italy is at a crisis in her campaign look back over the crisis, it is to │In Afrien and in her conflict with be recalled that there was an the Powers which are imposing original hope that the mere sanctions against her. She does threat of sanctions would pre-not wish, by making much of her vent an Ethiopian war. That successes in Africa, to stimulate those who seek to hamper her fight- hope was doomed to disappointing machine. She is deliberately ment, and there is now a hint keeping quiet about her advances that even the present measures and her plans. Howover, corres- will not incommode Italy to an pondents at the front inform extent which would be effective that the Italian armies have moved in bringing about an early settle to within sixty miles of Harrar, ment of the dispute. The result that their flying columns are in of the British elections certainly Jijlga, that powerful, hard-march- contact with the defenders of indicated approval of the ing units are Hunting down Ras Government policy in the crisis, Seyoum and his raidera in the but the point must not be lost north, that an Ethiopian.. column sight of that during the cam- which attempted to penetrate Italian paign there were repented as-Somaliland under Ras Desta, the Burunces by responsible states-Emperor's brother-in-law, has been men that every effort would be though the Italian armies in Africa | destroyed-that does not sound as made to secure a quick and
Continued on-Page 4) peaceful settlement of the dis- pute. There is certainly a wide- spread feeling.in Britain, and aggressor can be of little avail always has been from the very unless it is of sufficient force to: start of the crisis, that nothing achieve the end in view."
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"If Grover sees all these before I get them put away, he
stop looking for a job!
It reminds us of the time we went for a holiday to one of the outback places in Australia.
Our host met an at the raway siding in what he called * Buggy After one look at it we decided that the name was very spti ··
He said that he had to get nomie stuff at the store before we started for home. So we went to the store which was also a post office, bank, hitching post, fire brigade, and
restaurnut.
The storekeeper sald to our friend: ""Ullo Arthur!"
Arthur sald, Ulls Ted. Wot's all the decorations angin' round the shop:
for
Haven't you heard!" exclaimed. Ted. "The armistice has been sign.
"Holy amoke!"," said Arthur.
That's good news. Misius keepin' all right?"
"Not bad. Didjer. hear
about Hogan's barn catchin' alight?" And he went on and on like that for hours. A cow walked into the store, took a mouthful of dried apricots out of a box on the floor, and then ambled out again on to the verandah.
Somewhers about dusk Arthur came out of the store with a coll of barbed wire, put it on our seat in the buggy. slung a
bug over # to zhake nice and comfortable, and said, "'Op
The horse woke up with a start, shook itself and then bolted down the street.
opening and shutting
throterand twenty gates,wo:
arrived at the homestendees categ We all went to bed at half-past six, and after we'd been lying there for a while it bogan to get real dark So then: Arthur came and woke us up. Thought I'd let yer sleep in for while!" he said
"Thought you might. (Continued on Page 73)