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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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eir consulates, seized their official papers, and finally, with considerable ostentation, deported them and a great number of their nationals, who had been arrested at the same time. A score of Greek subjects were also arrested on charges of espionage and propaganda. While the measure was not altogether a surprise to the Greek Government, and was one obviously dictated by military caution and to be anticipated from the moment it was decided that the Allied forces remain in Macedonia, the manner of conducting the arrests deeply wounded the Greek people. The Greek Government had been assured by the Entente ministers that the consuls of the Central empires would not be expelled without previous warning. No warning was given, however, and on January 2 the Norwegian consul was likewise arrested and deported, and the consuls of the Central empires and the Dutch consular officer at Mitylene, as well as a number of Greek residents of that island,were taken into custody and expelled from Greek 150
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/ I ENCROACHMENTS territory. The protest of the Greek Government for these events was couched in no measured terms. While irritating measures of this character,touching vitally the sovereignty of Greece, were being taken by the Entente military and naval authorities, a letter written by a member of the British naval mission in Greece, and found in a diplomatic pouch a German submarine had seized on the person of Colonel Napier, was made public in Berlin and its text telegraphed to Athens.The writer advocated the dethronement of King Constantine by the Allies and the erection of Greece into a republic, with Venizelos at its head.The letter was a personal one and reflected no tangible official opinion. Nevertheless, there was no doubt in the minds of the Greeks that it revealed a plan which had been seriously discussed in the Entente legations at Athens. General Sarrail himself had been more frank than politic in his expressions along this line. The French minister to Greece was widely quoted as havi

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