We must now look at the situation from the Greek
side. On Thursday week the Greek Government, unable to govern without the co-operation of the Venezelist majority, dissolved the Chamber. New elections are fixed for December 19th, and the Chamber is to meet again on
January 24th. We shall till then look through a glass darkly at Greek policy, and it will be more necessary than ever to make sure that we know what is going on ,behind the glass. The terms of an alleged agreement between Greece and Bulgaria have reached this country, bat we shall not believe in any such pact till the evidence is stronger. For the moment the vital need is to extract from Greece assurances as to her intentions in the event of the Serbians or any of the Allied forces being driven on to Greek territory. It would be madness for the Allies to undertake a campaign that may range over distriets hitherto entombed by the war without knowing what Greece would consider herself justified in doing in that event. If the Allied forces found themselves at a grave disadvantage owing to some unexpected action by Greece, they would be in the position of a sailor who should enter a harbour that was silting up behind him. He would be trapped—and so would they.
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