Greece in Evolution: Studies Prepared Under the Auspices of the French League for the Defence of the Rights of Hellenism (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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I have been asked by my friends of the French League for the defence of Hellenism to contribute a few words by way of preface to an English translation of their book, La Gre'ce, saying publicly that which I had privately written to them on the appearance last year of the original volume. In this country a Greek Committee, having the same object as that uniting the friends of Greece in Paris, has shown activity on three occasions in the last thirty-two years, and will doubt less be reconstituted. It has at least prevented political disregard of modern Hellenic civilisation. The selfish interests of the Great Powers and the territorial claims of pushing peoples have stood in the way of Greece, hampered as she is by the narrow limits assigned to the independent nucleus of the nation at the moment when international recognition of existence could no longer be denied. Independence had been won by her dauntless heroes, and was indeed at first curtailed through the intervention of the Powers. Since that date the Greek Kingdom has begun to grow, and, now, to thrive. The protected Republic of the Ionian Islands passed to Greece at the desire of the citizens, and by the consent of Great Britain, the successor of Russia in the occupa tion'of Corfu and protection of the scattered group.

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