of the Serbs to Italy
would be simpler than to Corfu. Is it because the Italians are
refusing to accept the Serbs, fearing the spread of cholera, and the
Allies are thinking that the Greeks want to be endangered by cholera
any more than the Italians?... The history of the Balkan politics of
the Allies is the record of one crass mistake after another, and now,
through pique over the failure of their every Balkan calculation, they
try to unload on Greece the results of their own stupidity. We warned
them that the Gallipoli expedition would be fruitless and that the
Austro-Germans would surely crush Serbia.... At the beginning of the
war eighty per cent of the Greeks were favorable to the Allies; to-day
not forty, no, not twenty per cent would turn their hands to aid the
Allies."

As for Venizelos, his voice was no longer heard. So disliked was he by
the Government that when certain soldiers joined in a celebration of
his name-day, fifty of them were sentenced to a month's confinement as
a punishment for so expressing their sympathy. In the middle of
February, 1916, this enmity was especially acute. Venizelos himself
told a journalist that he was holding himself so aloof from politics
that he did not even read the reports of the proceedings of the
Chamber of Deputies.

But on March 1, 1916, there was a report from Athens that King
Constantine had suddenly summoned Venizelos. Several interviews
followed, and it was then announced that the king and Venizelos were
reconciled. Whether that meant any change in Greece's policy was not
mentioned. The general impression prevailed at this time, however,
that the great success of the Russians in Asiatic Turkey was having
its effect on the King of Greece and his Government.

Of Rumania little was heard during the entire winter, no startling
changes having taken place in her attitude. In January the British
Government contracted with Rumania for the purchase of 800,000 tons of
wheat, to the value of about fifty million dollars, to be delivered by
the middle of April.

On February 14, 1916, the Rumanian Government announced that its
mobilization had been completed by the calling up of a fresh class
and that the General Staff was completing the defenses of the
Carpathians and the fortifications along the banks of the Danube in
the new Dobrudja territory, which had been taken from Bulgaria during
the Balkan Wars. Take Jonescu, the well-known Rumanian statesman, in
an interview with