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Our Historical Archive
San Francisco Call Bulletin
September 12, 1922. This article is reprinted below.
Disclaimer: All newspaper articles are reprinted exactly as they appeared in the newspaper regardless of misspellings, grammar,
errors, or omissions.
Editorial - Greece and Turkey
IT WILL BE A victory snatched from defeat if the Greeks insist upon the abdication of King Constantine and the recall to power of Venizelos.
As long as Constantine remains on the throne Greece can hope for nothing from the allies. They are not friendly to Turkey and will take steps
to prevent the Turk using the recent victory as the begining of a campaign to conquer Greece, but for Greece they have no sympathy and can have
none while Constantine retains any measure of power.
Venizelos exerted every influence against the Constantine plan to have Greece join the central powers during the world war. In return for his
services in the allied cause he was given power at the peace conference and he used it to secure concessions to Greece. No sooner than had he
won those concessions than Constantine was recalled from banishment and permitted to begin the policy that has resulted in the present disaster.
If Constantine is removed and Venizelos restored to a rightful position in Grecian affairs, it will mean more than a question of adjusting the
differences between Greece and Turkey, because Venizelos is a world figure and a world force for world peace.
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