Identifier: constantineigree01hibb (find matches)
Title: Constantine I and the Greek people
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Hibben, Paxton, 1880-1928
Subjects: Constantine I, king of the Hellenes, 1868-1923 World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, The Century co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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es temperament, used to the simplermethod of command. I find him admirable in it,displaying the scrupulous patience of the impa-tient man with astonishing skill and effectiveness.Never once did he lose that sense of humor forwhich he is remarkable, or his cheerful confi-dence in the eventual success of his plan. Veni-zelos charges him with stepping down from histhrone to lead a political party. Perhaps this istrue. It is certain that to accompHsh the end hehad in view—the conservation of what he believedthe vital interest of his country—King Constan-tine would not have hesitated not only to stepdown from his throne, but to renounce his crownentirely, if need were. Both Princes Nicholas and Andrew have in-formed me that their reception by the Ententeauthorities in Petrograd and London was in thenature of that accorded to Mr. Britling when hedesired to volunteer his services to his countryafter the Battle of the Marne. King Constan-tines offer was regarded with suspicion. Prince 264
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ANDREW, PRINCE OF GREECE THE BULGARIAN INVASION Andrew, in London, was lectured like a school-boy on what the Greek sovereign ought and oughtnot to do by a high permanent official of theForeign Office, who had never been in the nearEast and knew nothing of the situation in Greecesave what he had learned from interested Veni-zelist sources. In Russia, Prince Nicholas faredbetter, as the Imperial Government, still playingto secure an open Dardanelles, instead of hav-ing the straits closed by British guns on Imbros,Tenedos, and Lemnos, had need of Greece tocarry out that plan. In general, however, thenegotiations were quite as unsatisfactory asSerbias negotiations with her Allies for permis-sion, in September, 1915, to fall upon Bulgariabefore Bulgarian mobilization could be com-pleted. There seemed to be no tendency to basea large scheme of decisive military operationsupon Rumanias entry into hostilities. Rumaniawas to come in and carry out her own plans ofconquest haphazard, without re

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