imitracopoulos has laid
down his mandate.

"Under these conditions the situation becomes inextricable. The military
and naval authorities of the Entente foment and encourage in the country
a revolution and armed sedition, and they favour by every means the {124}
Salonica movement by continuing the vexatious measures and restricting
all freedom of thought and action. The Entente Ministers paralyze all
Government. Thus the country is pushed towards anarchy.

"Such conduct not only conflicts with the assurances which they have
given us, but excludes all practical possibility of reconsidering our
policy freely to the end of taking a decision in a favourable direction.
For the rest, Greece divided would not be of any use as an ally. It is
necessary that there should return in the country comparative calm and
the feeling of independence, indispensable for taking extreme
resolutions. It is necessary that confidence in the sympathy of the
Entente should be restored. A resolution to participate in the war taken
under present circumstances would run the risk of being attributed to
violence and of being received with mistrust. More, that resolutions may
be taken without danger of disaster, there is need of circumspection and
discretion, so as not to provoke an attack from the Germano-Bulgars who
are in our territory, before we are ready to lend real assistance to the
Entente. A more definite declaration of principle, which would have to
be kept secret in the common interest, would be of no practical value.

"Under certain circumstances, rendering the participation of Greece
useful and conformable to our interests, I have already declared that I
am ready to enter into the war on the side of the Entente. I am ready to
envisage negotiations in this sense. But, before all, I need, that I may
be able to occupy myself usefully and with a certain mental calmness with
foreign questions, to see comparative quiet restored at home, and so to
save the appearances of liberty of action. In this I ask, for the sake
of the common interest, the Powers to give me their help.

"I have charged M. Calogeropoulos to form a Ministry: he is equally
animated by the best intentions towards the Entente."

The new Premier, who had already held office with distinction as Minister
of the Interior and as Minister of Finance, possessed every qualification
for the delicate task entrusted to him. On the day of his accession _The
Times_ Corresponden