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Show i NEW KING A HERO; ONCE HATED MAN j King Constantine, the new ruler o: Greece, until four years ago was mosl unpopular in his own kingdom, wher today he is a hero classed with th ancient warriors of the historic land The ruler for whom Greeks all over the world as well as In Greece have been buying chaplets, swords, and jeweled wreaths, as the liberator of the land from the thrall of the Turks, has heard outside the palace walls at Athens and at his own chateau cha-teau of Tater the cry of the mob that he and his father abdicate in favor of his own eldest son, Prince George; he ha-3 had the military league of his own army and navy against him to the extent of mutiny; he has been inveighed in-veighed against in the parliament and publicly scored in the newspapers newspa-pers for political reasons. Now when he returns to Athens not only as king but as commander of an army that revived "the glory ' that was Greece s tnere win oe no limit to the enthusiasm. Recent victorious battles wrought the change. Constantine's first experience with unpopularity came when he suffered, with other members of the royal family, for the failure of the Greek arms In the Turkish war of 1897, and when at the conclusion of that war an act I -was passed creating the post of commander in chief and conferring It on Constantine, the bitterest opposition was aroused. I He continued to hold the post, however, until the revolution of the Military Mili-tary league in 1909, when he was forced, with the other princes, to resign from the army. |
