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Show GREECE IY BE F0RCE0IHT0 WAR EXPECTED RETURN OF VENIZE-LOS VENIZE-LOS TO POWER MAY CAUSE KING TO ABDICATE. Rumored That Venizelos and His Followers Fol-lowers Are Placing Orders for Necessary Munitions and Armaments Arma-ments for Greek Army. Athens. It is becoming more and more a general belief here that Greece may yet be forced into the world war now in progress. "The trouble in Greece is not over," said a neutral diplomat in an interview inter-view on Thursday. "As a matter of fact it is only just beginning. King Constantine cannot logically accept the elections calmly, for the indications indica-tions are the elections mean the return re-turn of Venizelos. And Venizelos is determined to make it impossible for all time to come for the sovereign in Greece ever to take the reins of power pow-er as Constantine has done if the Cretan has to change the Greek constitution con-stitution to do it For King Constantine Constan-tine to accept this is equivalent to abdication ab-dication and I believe he will actually actual-ly abdicate before he will do it. "What is a still bitterer pill for the king to swallow is that the return of Venizelos would in all probability mean the entry of Greece into the European war on the side of the entente en-tente allies. They say that Venizelos and his followers are already placing orders for the necessary munitions and armament for the Greek army in that event. Can you see Constantine I leading "his men against the forces of his brother-in-law, the kaiser, while Venizelos, whom he regards as his arch-enemy, governs the country in the royal name? "Considering the attitude of the king up to now, it seems only logical that he must resist by every possible means the return of Venizelos to power and all that return entails. After all, the king has put himself in the position of the leader of a political politi-cal party, and if he loses he may find that the sole consistent course to follow fol-low is that incumbent on a political leader who has lost retire to private life." |