| Show GREEK I RENOUNCED BY GOUNARIS Winner Winner of Recent Election Believes Change Unnecessary Unnecessary Unnecessary and Un Unwise ise POLICY UNCHANGED i While Feeling Is for Allies i iI I Country Will Maint Maintain in I N Neutrality y 1 BERLIN BERIN D Dee Dec 27 by wireless wireless wire wire- wire 1 less to Sayville M. M. M Gounaris whose party won the recent general election lection in Greece has renounced his claims to the premiership the Overseas News agency agency says An Athens dispatch re- re by the news agency says that M. M Gounaris made a report to King Constantine on the outcome of ot the election and added that as the leader of tile tHe new majority party he w was s willing witting to support the the ministry of Premier Owing to political pout pout- teal ical conditions in Greece he believed a a. change In government to be not only unnecessary but unwise It is s said ld the king agreed with this suggestion lon PARIS Dec 27 The The Athens cOrre cOr- cOr re respondent of or the tle Matin faUn sends the following Having Interviewed M. M los loson on the subject of the elections and obtained from him an affirmation that his triumph was demonstrated by the small number of votes otes polled I I called upon M. M M Gounaris Counaris who de denied d denied de- de nied l there was any considerable number number num num- I I ber even n of ff If abstentions the soldiers and claimed mobilized that J had been able to vote the result I would have been the same I T then sought Bought to ask asle about the foreign polIcy policy pol pol- icy of Greece but 1 M. M I. I Interrupted Interrupted interrupted Inter inter- me saying es e's policy is unchanged Greece Is a small state which doss does not want to be he dragged Into the the war which might Involve a a. catastrophe catastrophe catastrophe catas catas- like those which haye hay befallen Belgium and Serbia Ve We are Creeks n ls Jf I 1 am aup m pf a tI eta W rr roh i Ven Ve- Ve o a Kran x e rma erm n l St t f Greek ree n exist ii in jr Greece even under udder the present pres- pres All AU present pre pres ent eat circumstances remains attached to England Fr France nce and Russie Russle to which she owes oves her existence and her development But you ou cannot ask uk that the sentiment should go so 80 far as as to lead us us without absolute ty Into the conflict and we believe belleve nothing now requires us to I cease our neutrality Greece will always always always al- al ways feel teel keenly whatever happens happens' for better t or worse se to l France rance but We cannot do more more o I 1 then asked t Gounaris to ex explain explain ex- ex plain how if It the Ute Bulgarians are the hereditary enemies s of or Greece the Greek people could agree to the allies' allies army falling back Indefinitely before the on Greek territory i Now you are going Into the thedo domain do- do main of the future he replied and andI I cannot enter into that I am speakIng speaking speaking speak speak- ing only of accomplished facts and the attitude they impose upon Us I Ic cannot c speak of the future 4 I 1 remarked that such silence might be considered significant and M M. 1 Gounaris Gounaris Gou Con naris explained I dont don't even au au- au authorize authorize you to draw Deduction deduction from my silence |
