Photo by £)nima G. Cununings 

 SITE OF THE ROYAL TOMBS, DISCOVERED BY SCHLIEMANN IN T876. WHICH CON- 

 TAINED AN EXTRAORDINARY QUANTITY OF GOLD AND OTHER ORNAMENTS 



The circular space in which these were found was inclosed by a double circle of upright 

 stone slabs, covered with horizontal slabs 



cause I believe that a new day has 

 dawned for Greek public life. The 

 bloodless revolution of 1909. which had 

 its origin in the determination of a group 

 of officers to purge the army and the 

 navy of their political ills, has gone much 

 farther than its authors had foreseen, 

 and as a result Greek hopes now center 

 in one man, who, brought to Athens 

 from turbulent Crete to rescue the Mil- 

 itary League from the depths of the 

 parliamentary muddle into which they 

 had fallen, became in 10 months the 

 prime minister of Greece, and in three 

 weeks thereafter had demonstrated him- 

 self the master of a situation which had 

 baffled all of his predecessors. 



A GREEK BISMARCK 



This man, Eleutherios \^enizelos. is a 

 Greek of the Greeks, with a long line of 

 distinguished Hellenic ancestry. Edu- 



cated at the University of Athens and 

 in Switzerland, he was established him- 

 self as an attorney in Crete, and was 

 active in the revolution movements 

 which brought on the Greco-Turkish 

 war of 1897. 



Upon the establishment of the High 

 Commissioner's regime in Crete. \'eni- 

 zelos and Prince George were not in ac- 

 cord, and the prince's withdrawal from 

 the island followed — an incident which 

 led the court party in Athens to regard 

 A'enizelos as an arch-revolutionary and 

 to render his task the more difficult. 



The Greek people, however, have 

 never wavered in their support of him. 

 He is their idol — and he justifies their 

 idolatry. Summoned to the prime min- 

 istry much earlier than he had believed 

 himself ready for such power, and 

 knowing full well that he owed his pre- 

 ferment in a large measure to the wishes 



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