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Show CHANGE IN GREECE. It is reported that the new Greek premier wi 1 1 adopt a policy of ' 1 very j benevolout" neutrality toward the al-! lies. What this may connote can only be coujecturcd, but that there can be varying degrees of benevolent neutrality neutral-ity goes without saying. Premier Zaimas w-as compelled by con flit ions to maintain benevolent neutrality neu-trality toward the allies, but both he and his monarch appeared to grudge whatever help G reece afforded the entente en-tente powers. Now the new premier is to bo ''very benevolent. ' y The change in the situation duri ng the last month has-been appreciable. As regiment after regiment of French aud English troops disembarked at Salon -iki and Kavala the .benevolence of the Greeks increased in "vcryrjess," so to' speak. Nor was this to the discredit of the Greeks. "While they ate to bo condemned' for not keeping their treaty agreement to help the Serbs, they have been able to argue with effect that they could only do harm to Serbia and to Greece as well by entering the war unprepared. The flaw in the argument argu-ment is that G recce was not u n prepared. pre-pared. She was able to mobilize at least 200,000 men, well equipped and munitioned. Greece has bccD amassing ammunition and other military supplies for several years because of the danger of war with Turkey, and when Bulgaria Bul-garia attacked Serbia the chances are that Greece was prepared at least as well as was Bulgaria. With I.jO.OOO French aud English troops in Greece aud Serbia the Greeks see their own situation strengthened. They feel that they can exert the balance bal-ance of power at any time and they realize that their own welfare demands that this balance be employed on the side of the entente powers. |