M. Veniaelos has definitely abandoned all hope of reconcilia' ion
with King Constantine. In an interview with the Times corre- spondent, he said that Constantine, " having once been a King, has become no more than a party leader. Between him and us the is a gulf as deep C.3 the gulf between you and Germany ; the causes of that gulf are the same and the prospects of reunion are not one whit the greater." Admiral Condouriotis, 31. Venixelos's colleague, said bluntly : " Neither in this world nor in the next will I have anything to do with King Constantine or his dynasty." M. Averoff, a Minister in the Provisional Government, put the matter more plainly still by declaring that " the dynasty of Con- stantine should, like the Turks, be turned bag and baggage out of Greece." For our part, we do not understand how or why, after the fall of the Romanoffs, King Constantine has continued to impose on the patience of the Allies. To all intents and purposes, he is as much our enemy as King Ferdinand of Bulgaria.
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