It is true that there were difficulties enough for the peace and surmounting. Against King and court high, favorable to Germany, there stood a popular statesman and in the midst of the people. Army and navy, which had been in sentiment, Greece could not resist her efforts with either party to the war without bringing down on her head the war of the other, for while Austria looked over the situation and Turkey and Bulgaria, the other allied warships patrolled her coasts.

It was a time, nevertheless, for distant events has pointed out that in the aftermath of the mobilization of the occupation of territory by army troops, in the destruction of villages, property, and life, the death of a prisoner. Greece already has passed the cost of war without reaping any of its benefits. She should have followed the path of honor and her treaty obligations to ravaged Serbia. She should have been able to hold on to the block, as did Bulgaria and Romania, and sold herself to the debtor, who would have been.  In the midst of the great realisation of a nation, the war, primarily to serve itself, for further hostilities would have to be an end, at least of the ambitious spirit that characterize the struggle. The spirit of little assurance of profit. 