Greece . ose politi-cal convulsions assume the strangest andmost disturbing forms by their veryviolence, it is well that there should bea self-controlled, industrious people, fullyunified by the love of the old traditionsof classic culture and refusing to be de-luded by any of the chimaeras of crazeddemagogues. The Greeks are tolerant,ethnically and religiously. The stategrants subventions to the Jewish schoolsin just the same way that it grants tothe Mussulmans a share in the govern-ment, rigorously equal to that of itsother citizens. The Chamber of Deputiesand the Municipal Councils are open
Greece . ose politi-cal convulsions assume the strangest andmost disturbing forms by their veryviolence, it is well that there should bea self-controlled, industrious people, fullyunified by the love of the old traditionsof classic culture and refusing to be de-luded by any of the chimaeras of crazeddemagogues. The Greeks are tolerant,ethnically and religiously. The stategrants subventions to the Jewish schoolsin just the same way that it grants tothe Mussulmans a share in the govern-ment, rigorously equal to that of itsother citizens. The Chamber of Deputiesand the Municipal Councils are open tothem, and in spite of the very shortperiod during which Greek administra-tion functioned in reconquered Mace-donia, Mr. Venizelos had the live satis-faction of receiving unsolicited testimonyfrom Jews and Mussulmans of high rankas to the justice of the new adminis-tration. In two years Greece will celebrate thecentennial of her resurrection. By theirmarvelous attachment to the soil of .?- ? ?-?. ATHENS.—The Zappion. The Exhibition building of the Greek Capital. 34 their ancestors, by theirfaith in the destinies oftheir land, by their unin-terrupted efforts to re-store its oldtime glory theGreeks have shown them-selves worth y of theardent sympathy withwhich all Europe has em-braced their struggle toregain their liberty. Chateaubriand wrote in1825 : Shall our centurysee hordes of savagesstifle civilization as it isreborn in thetomb of a peoplewhich gave theworld its civiliza-tion? Shall Chris-tianity calmlypermit the Turksto cut thethroats o fChris
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