power. For a proud
spirit that would have been enough; it was not enough for {211} M.
Venizelos. He acted as if he wanted to enjoy their humiliation, and
because he had them down to profit by their helplessness.

Identical treatment could not be meted out to those in Corsica and
Switzerland, though some of them were sentenced to death by default for
conspiring against M. Venizelos. But all that could be done from a
distance to embitter their lot was done. Whilst at home the blackest
calumnies were thrown upon them: in exile they were pursued by the same
blight. Special attention was directed to the "arch-traitor." He had
been dethroned and expatriated; but this was not enough. His pension
was cut off. He and all the members of his family, with the exception
of Prince George, who stayed in Paris, were forbidden to visit Entente
countries, even for the purpose of attending the death-bed of a
relative. Entente subjects visiting Switzerland were forbidden to go
near them: lest any particle of the truth should percolate. Until the
end of the War they lived segregated, shunned, and spied upon like
malefactors. During the Liberal regime in Greece, while Italian and
Swiss hotels flourished all the year round on Royalist refugees,
Royalist exiles populated the semi-desert islands of the Archipelago:
they were gathered in batches and shipped off--persons of every degree,
from general officers whose guilt was attachment to their King, down to
poor people convicted of owning the King's portrait. For the
possession of a portrait of Constantine supplied one of the most common
proofs of "ill-will towards the established order" (_dysmeneia kafa tou
kathestotos_)--a new crime invented to meet a new constitutional
situation. It extended to the utmost confines of the kingdom. As the
farmers were at work in the fields, gendarmes raided and ransacked
their cottages for such portraits; butchers and fishmongers were haled
before courts-martial for like indications of ill-will; and--matter for
laughter and matter for tears are inseparable in modern Greek history
(perhaps in all history)--one met a cabman beaten again and again for
calling his horse "Cotso" (diminutive of "Constantine"), or a woman
dragged to the police-station because her parrot was heard whistling
the Constantine March. Volumes would be needed to record the petty
persecutions which arose from {212} the use of that popular name:
suffice it to say that prudent pa