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Show THE CITIZEN whereas the Germans had invited themselves into Greece Bel- - Constantine was king of the Greeks and certainly he had invited the allies to step into his parlor. On the contrary, he jg he could to keep them out. And what did they do g everything to the back door and ask the chief cook and bottle go around a very good cook and a brilliant washer of holer, Venizelos tkey might not enter the palace by the postern gate. Ccrlie and pardie, an ye may, said Venizelos. nd they entered in gladly and said that great was the shadow 'enizelos in all the land and of a verity more to be considered shadow of Constantine. S the pretzel-shape- d Fl It was a perfectly good invitation ; the allies knew it to be, be- they had asked for it of the king, and when he refused they ned it from the cook. Could anything be more legitimate ? And he disgusting Teuton went about telling the world that the ion of Greece was on a par with the invasion of Belgium, fter that Constantine made himself offensive in many ways, lided with the kaiser at every opportunity. When he should have lifting his glass of champagne to us godlike allies and uttering modulated hurrahs, he and his queen, Sophie, drank steins of fceeijand hoched for der kaiser. I lit was a very vulgar performance and all of us allies were foam-ijt- h rage. When we saw our opportunity we packed Constantine off fb Switzerland and plumed ourselves on our restraint because we 'li(fnot murder him. He was, and is, a most aggravating person. nd all the time that his people should have been taking our they were secretly nursing a grudge against the allies and love and veneration for Constantine. Oh, the fickle, fickle Greeks! Had they not been fickle since the dawn of history? Had foot ill history warned us of their fickleness ! eSsjhd, behold, the fickle Greeks, when we allies had given them Margie spoils and much land at Illium and in Thrace; when they had (Obtained everything we had to give, they recalled their king and But : i 5 made faces at us at us honorable and almost sacred allies. And then we met in council at London and took back some of our gifts, just to show the Greeks that we were not to be trifled with at least not much. But did the Greeks abide by the solemn referendum? Did they bow down to our highly respectable lash and beg for more? On the contrary they became offensive and they are still conducting that offensive. In all the region around Smyrna, in a wide semi-circlthey are pushing back our friends, the Turks. Of course, the Turks are rather new-foufriends. They have been friends only since Constantine returned to the Greek throne and sometimes they pain us by a certain lack of etiquette when they slaughter Armenians. Great Britain and France had been making terms with the Turk because they were so busy in other quarters that they could not suppress him. To obtain a measure of peace and leisure so that they might conduct other warfares they suspended hostilities with him and even hinted that they would be well pleased if he would shove the Greek into the Mediterranean. But the disgustingly energetic Constantine organized a new army and smote the Turk on this side and then on that and sent him and Eski-Sheand other horribly reeling out of Turkish places. While we allies are going about doing everybody good, the brother-in-lawages victorious warfare where we failed. And he is not the least bit frightened by our severe disapproval as we stand on the side-linand frown like an old maid frowning with pursed lips and vinegar expression at youth and beauty. Certainly we must find a way to check this beast of a Constantine before he batters to pieces that fine, gentleman the Terribly Nice Turk. Why, if we keep our hands off Constantine is apt to defeat the Turk utterly and make it impossible for him to murder any more Armenians. high-minde- d, e, nd Afiun-Karahiss- ar hr ex-kais- es w es high-mind- ed SIR ROBERT CECIL WAS FRAMER OF WARBLEAGUE COVENANT i l. Viviani, the foremost orator of France, comes at an ill the resuscitation of dmejfor the cause he is supposed to represent e League of Nations. Contemporaneously with his arrival the Lansing book is aj pub-lshe- d. It will be read as widely as the artistic propaganda of our jisitjr and will serve but to confirm the determination of the Amer-"ppeople to stay out of Europe. The loyalty which Mr. Lansing displayed to the Wilson adminj istration by remaining silent when he should have seen his way to ipr ie larger loyalty of speaking out in the interest of his country ob1TMll bring upon him widespread condemnation, but this cannot scure the import of his revelations. fi perusal of his work shows that it was Sir Robert Cecil, 'hiiiember of a familv which controls the British government, who of the ve: to the league covenant the character of a coalition con- powers to rule the world. He played the cards with Ct skill. So. of the too, did all British statesmen at the time ui conference. All of us will remember 'with what mystification we heard that c Jc incmbcrs.of the House of Commons laughed when then that ped acceptance of the league. We could not suspect 'embers of the Commons were in a combine to pull the wool anc fcsV.r!0lIr l cs 5 pretending to regard with contempt a document they desired more than anything else on this sublunary sphere, XVc rannnt suspect anything else. It seems manifest t nit cove w:prj la itchier was the most subtle comauflagc: for the league Brit- Cecil to guarantee the jjl iotjliad i,ccn formulated bv Sir Robert ' the . (.H'npiivs territories with the money, troops and warships of ' nitd States. It was one of the boldest strokes of diplomacy jWsailles I Lloyd-Georg- -- 1 "w" ) the .lays of Pericles. Now we can understand why the league did not take the form of a judicial tribunal. Great Britain wanted a fighting league pledged to her protection and Sir Robert Cecil saw to it that this wish should be fully satisfied in the form of the league. Lansing perceived the peril and protested, but the president was on the side of Sir Robert and Great Britain. Mr. Wilson, for reasons of his own, was as eager as Sir Robert and all the other English statesmen to have a league which should guarantee the fruits of victory and perpetuate the power of the great nations for dominion of a mastered world. That is just what the opponents of the league have been stressing from the outset. The people came to believe in that view despite the fact that light was withheld from them by every ruse of diplomatic secrecy. Mr. Lansing shows that Mr. Wilson became the most earnest advocate of secrecy in Paris. And no wonder! The deal which he had decided'to put over was one of the most amazing in the annals of negotiations. Here was a president of the United States, pledged to open covenants, to the equal treatment of great and small nations, to to justice for all, and to a league to preserve peace, conspiring with Sir Robert Cecil to abandon all of these pledges and to set up a war alliance to turn over most of the spoils to Great Britain, to guarantee her in possession of the spoils and to perpetuate her power over her subject races by means of American self-determinati- on, military might. This is not an overstatement of the case, for even though it never had been necessary for us to employ our troops to preserve the British empire, the plain fact that the big powers were combined |