consequent prevention of the German military system being spread to the ends of the earth.  They should not be asked to consent to the restoration to a militant Germany of fresh footholds for militarism in the Southern Hemisphere, and thus to endanger the future of their young and rising communities who are developing the waste places of the earth.  They want a new Monroe Doctrine for the South as there has been a Monroe Doctrine for the West, to protect it against European militarism.  Behind the sheltering wall of such a doctrine they promise to build up a great, new, peaceful world not only for themselves, but for the many millions of black folk intrusted to their care.

[Sidenote:  Germany’s stubborn defense of her African colonies.]

The enemy’s stubborn defence of his last colony has not only been a great feat in itself, but is also a proof of the supreme importance attached by the German Government to this African colony both as an economic asset and as a strategic point of departure for the establishment of the future Central African Empire to which I have referred.  At the conclusion of peace our statesmen will be bound to bear in mind these wider and obscurer issues, fraught with such consequences to the world and to the British Empire in particular.  Perhaps I may be allowed to express the fervent hope that a land where so many of our heroes lost their lives or their health; where, under the most terrible and exacting conditions, human loyalty and human service were poured out lavishly in a great cause, may never be allowed to become a menace to the future peaceful development of the world.  I am sure my gallant boys, dead or living, would wish for no other or greater reward.

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Greece, as a result of the intrigues of the pro-German king and queen, was a thorn in the flesh to the Allies for the first years of the war.  The deposition of King Constantine, and the resumption of power of Premier Venizelos, brought Greece back to the place where her people wished to be.

GREECE’S ATONEMENT

LEWIS R. FREEMAN

[Sidenote:  A meeting with Venizelos.]

The Venizelists had been having a bad time of it from the first, but the blackest hours of all were those toward the end of last April, when Constantine was still strong in Athens, and before the Saloniki Allies had found it practicable or expedient to welcome them to a full brotherhood of arms.  It was during this “dark before the dawn” period that I had my first meeting with M. Venizelos, a conventional half hour’s interview in the suburban villa, midway along the curve of Saloniki Bay where the Provisional Government had established its headquarters.

[Sidenote:  The attitude of Constantine.]