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ft Hellas Victorious. Eski Shehir has fallen. The gr .est fortress of Nationalist Tur which was the citadel of all Tur P??.. hopes, and the greatest argumen ail the enemies of Hellenism, taken by storm by the Hell KS. troops in a brilliant offensive las' 2ess than ten days and carried with the greatest successes that < crowned the Greek arms. Under command of its foren ?I.' military leaders all of whom ear their spurs in the Balkan wars, Greek army has taken the field gainst Turkey singlehanded, un the most critical circumstances 1 ever faced a country which for successive years has had a more less continuous war in its hands. The Turkish resistance so lat iously built up by the Bolshei and the French, who do not m co-operating when it.comes to fif ing against the Greeks, has cn hied along the entire front of line more than 250 miles 1< stretching from Yeni Shqhir, in North clear through to Tchivril the South. The official reports fr . both the Gre ek and Turkish sour confirm the enormous losses suff ed by the defenders of the Turk positions who have been outr noeuvred and outfought by 1 Greek command on every phase this offensive. A conservative estimate of i Turkish losses is given by the fi that in Kutahia alone nearly thu thousand prisoners fell into Gre nands, with two hundred cann and enormous quantities of suppl and ammunition of all kinds, wh the.?booty <aken in Eski Shehir still to be counted. From, the Bia Sea to Lycaonian and Pissidian frc tiers, and from the Aegean seacot for a distance of one hundred a* fifty miles, a territory larger th. Italy and almost as large as t states of New York and New Jerse is held today by the Greek troo with nothing to stay their advan to Angora, except the demoralizi remnants of the scattered Kemali , -forces. The Greek army has taken i this ground in the face of the bi . terest opposition of France ai Italy, at a time when Great Britta openly declared its neutrality in tl Greco-Turkish campaign, and whi America stood as a disinterested ar indifferent onlooker of. what wi going on. But it is for this reason that tl Greek success, when it is close! examined, assumes a still great* importance, and becomes a matt* for study for all those who tali an interest in North Eastern affair > Greece, it should be remembere< offers to-day one of the best e: amples of a country which was d< nied the right of self-determinatio as that right was defined durin and after the great war. It is i the exercise of this right tha . ? Greece found herself isolated an abused by the selfsame countrie that were the loudest supporters o self determination, and it is b; sticking to this right that she foum her moral strength increasing am her enthusiasm growing, and it i the result of Greek strength an< Greek enthusiasm that we are wit nessing to-day in Asia Minor. One may well ask to-day for th< reason fif this hostility more or lesi openly shown to the only countrj -which is left to fight the war ol civilization against murderous anc barbarous Turkey, which war is noi a new one hut the same which has been carried on by theGreek nation ever since the fall of Constantinople, and more actively so, in the last hun dred years. What has Greece done to France and to Italy and to Great Brittain and last but not least to the United States so as to incur the hos tility of the two first powers, the un friendliness of the third, and our in difference toward her struggle? That France and Italy might value the friendship of the Turk more than that of Greece is conceivable, while the identity of life British and Greek interest in the Eastern Mediterra nean does not. by any means explain the present official and neutral atti tude of Greai. Brittain in the Greco Turkish war. But here we have A merica, whose slogan has always ' ' oeen to "Put the Turk out of Eu rope" and to free the Christian pop ulation from his yoke, arid whose present policy after all her magnif icent championship of the aspira tions and American freedom, is alto gether puzzling. Greece has never done anything I to hurt neither America nor any of . the allied powers. She only had a national policy of not going into the great war prematurely, and be de stroyed, and it is against this policy that Great Brittain and France ob jected in the opening days of the Eu ropean conflict; and because the chief exponent of this policy-which was the national policy of the Greeks -happened to be King Constantine, the whole allied opposition to Greece centered on this man, whom allied force has fought bitterly du-j ring the European ^ war, without j impairing in the least his popula] with the Hellenic people. The Greeks may have many fai but they are not. collectively stu] So when they stood in favor of tl King all through the time when was abused and slandered by whole world, that means that tl knew what they were doing in tl own home. They did not wish to ter "the war until they felt that enterprise would be successful, s they did hot wish to engage in greatest of all wars at/the comm! bf others. The statesmen direct the allied policies during the. \ thought otherwise, and they took upon themselves to force Greece to the fray. They did so hy enter Greece as masters, by .exiling 1 King, by appointing a Dictator their own choosing, and by more less approving his arbitrary a tyrannous acts during three and half years. Then the :Greek people was grv the first chance to express its s< jereign. will in five years. 1 ?verdict is well known, and the 01 fact which does not seem to ha been fully digested in the magnitu of the Greek popular victory, whi was much- greater than that of t Republican landslide in the last pn idential, election. It is on the strength, of til popular election in which Mr. Veo zelos lost his own district by 9,0 votes in 5 0, 0 0 0 voting that t present Greek Government came power. This Government controls t Chamber with two hundred ai eighty seats against ninety held 1 the Opposition. On the other ha: the return of King Constantine .the result of a national plebiscite which he received (9800). of the t tal vote cast. In the face - of this verdict, tl only thing that the allies could < was to deny recognition to, Kii Constantine, but at the same tin they extended recognition to tl Government issuing from the, pol and continued their clqse co-oper; tion with those constituting There is not a single instance i which an allied Minister was r called from Greece since the retui of Constantine since our Ministe Mr. Capps, who came back . froi Athens, did so in compliance wit the established custom affecting a our diplomats, immediately after change in the Washington Admii .istration. ' The non recognition of King Cor stantine prevented the Greek Go\ ernment from sending Ministei Plenipotentiary to the allied capita] and in this category Washington i likewise included. That fact howeve has not prevented the Governmen of all, countries to accept Charges c Affaires of Greece who represent the Hellenic Government/ withou ?eing the immediate representation of the Crown as is the case with ai Ambassador or an Envoy. Now in the face of all this-ft seem that of all the representatives of th< Greek Government abroad, the om in Washington has the unique dis tinction of being shunned and' un recognised for no other reason thai apparently because on November 14 1920 seven tenths of the Greek elec tora te deliberately chose to over throw the Venize?ist dictatorship sel up in June 1917 by the French sena tor Jonnart, and to establish a popu lar Government of their own. Thus the question arises ' whether of al] countries of the earth, ours ia the only one that has taken the Vehi zelos defeat much more seriously than it deserved, in which case one cannot but wonder at the fact. Be that as it may, the truth re mains that the present Greek Gov ernment is at the present time shar ing ?ijith King Constantine, the pop ularity accruing to them both from the victorious operations of the Hel lenic army, and much as Constantine is disliked abroad, he and the Greek are to-day by the force of circum stances the only factor of order and civilization in the Turco-Bolshevik turmoil of Anatolia and Asia Minor. Greece, which after four years of an oppressive and tyrannous dicta torship, has not only succeeded in freeing herself from the yoke of that odious oligarchy, but has also demonstrated her ability to win singlehanded agreat war against a Nationalist Turkey enjoying the material and the morai support of almost the whole.world is to-day the master there, and it will be a poor policy indeed to ignore this fact, when our best traditions and our best interests clamor for its recogni tion. America under the leadership of James Madison and Daniel Webster was the first country to support the Hellenic struggle for independence a centuary ago; to-day Greece does not appeal to sentiment because she is fully aware of the fact that prac tical consideration counts far more in our busy age. ,/ On the contrary it is up to us to see that the same interests, for the protectionn of which we refrain ed from declaring war against Tur key and Bulgaria, during the world ; conflict, demand at this time that we get -closer to the victorious coun-1 try under whose military and polit ical and economic control our Near j Eastern'' interests are passing. And this is not much to ask in the case of Greece, which has always been, is to-day and will forever remain a friendly and a, grateful country which does not ask and more nor less than a square de?l. NOTICE ! Concordia 'Lodge No. 50, A. F. 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