Greece . thusrescued from the tyranny of man who had labored most activelyfor the union of Crete with its mother- CAXDIA OR HERAKLEION.—Ancient portof Cnossos, now a flourishing Cretan city. land was a young Cretan lawyer, namedEleutherios Venizelos. His father wasone of the heroes of the Greek War ofIndependence (1821-1827) and had lefthim, as his only legacy, an ardentpatriotism. Greece, as we have seen, had, eversince its labored renaissance, sufferedfrom the bad administration of theBavarian king, Otho, an administrationwhich had provoked two revolutions; ithad been exposed to t
Greece . thusrescued from the tyranny of man who had labored most activelyfor the union of Crete with its mother- CAXDIA OR HERAKLEION.—Ancient portof Cnossos, now a flourishing Cretan city. land was a young Cretan lawyer, namedEleutherios Venizelos. His father wasone of the heroes of the Greek War ofIndependence (1821-1827) and had lefthim, as his only legacy, an ardentpatriotism. Greece, as we have seen, had, eversince its labored renaissance, sufferedfrom the bad administration of theBavarian king, Otho, an administrationwhich had provoked two revolutions; ithad been exposed to the opposition of theGreat Powers, which were temporarilyallied with Turkey and it had recentlypassed through the anguish of an unsuc-cessful war. No opportunity had beengiven it in the calm of peace and theeconomic prosperity, which results frompeace at home and abroad, to pursue itsprogram of recovery. The weak financesof the state, insufficient and heavily bur-dened, paralysed all reformatory ITHACA (Ionian Islands).—Polls, a magnificent site, which fulfilled all the needs of ak _ _ maritime city in Homeric times. 18 We must take intoaccount the particu-larly difficult and dis-couraging conditionsin which Greece foundherself at the openingof the twentieth cen-tury, (that is to say,twenty years ago), inorder to be able to ap-preciate at their justValue the results of thework accomplished byYenizelos. The arrival on the scene of a singleman of an upright and decided char-
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