A meeting of the Greek Committee was held on Wednesday,
at which Lord Rosebery, the chairman, made a speech distin- guished at once by feeling for Greece and by some unexplained motive for hesitation. He believed that Greece had lost much by not going to war, and would not advise her to disarm, yet feared to advise a war "with a great military Power, which could flood her coasts with armed men." He was ashamed of the speech of M. Barthilemy St. Hilaire, who had receded from all the traditions of Prance; yet he declined to urge on war, because "a conflagration might be lighted up of which it was impossible to see the end." The meeting passed resolutions in favour of the Greek claims, but it is clear that if Greece is not prepared to recede, she must urge her rights for herself, and by the sword. The nations have lost all respect for their pledges, but they still think military occupation an "accomplished fact," and military enterprise a "feature to be taken into account." If the Greeks win a battle they will find friends enough, even among those who now denounce them, and whose disrespect is really founded on a belief that the Greeks are not barbaric enough. If the Mon- tenegrins were 2,000,000, they would shake the Sultanet down.
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