[9] Du Fournet, p. 116. Small wonder that the honest sailor's gorge rose at such proceedings: "Could I associate myself with manoeuvres of this sort?" he asks in disgust. "When German arms and bombs were seized in the bag from Berlin to Christiania, when similar things were discovered at Bucharest, and were detected in the United States under Bernstorf's protection, the Allies manifested their indignation. They were a hundred times right; but what was odious in America, was it not odious in Greece?" [10] The British Intelligence Service demonstrated its sense of humour and shame by furnishing its secret agents with a formal certificate of their identity to be presented at the central office of the Greek Police: one such patent of British protection was issued to an ex-spy of Sultan Abdul Hamid who had also spent six months in German pay. Besides the certificate, was issued a brassard, which the rogue might wear to protect him from arrest when breaking the Greek Law on British account. Incredible, yet true. See J. C. Lawson's _Tales of Aegean Intrigue_, p. 233. [11] Lawson, pp. 143-66. [12] Lawson, pp. 168-78. [13] Du Fournet, pp. 130-1. [14] Orations, p. 190. [15] "Now, to all of us it stands on a razor's edge: either pitiful ruin for the Achaians or life." Homer, _Iliad_, X, 173. [16] Lawson, pp. 180-9. [17] Du Fournet, p. 131. [18] Lawson, pp. 198-226. [19] Du Fournet, p. 136. [20] A paragraph of the Debierre Report, adopted by the French Senate on 21 Oct., 1916, may be quoted in this connexion: "_La revolution Salonicienne vue de pres, n' est rien. Elle est sans racine, sans lendemain probable. Venizelos est tres amoindri. La Grece, dont les officiers et les soldats ne veulent pas se battre, est avec Constantin._"--Mermeix, _Le Commandement Unique_, Part II, p. 60. [21] Romanos, Paris, 14/27, 15/28 Sept.; Carapanos to Greek Legation, Paris, 15/28 Sept., 1916. [22] Romanos, Paris, 16/29, 17/30 Sept.; Gennadius, London, 17/30 Sept., 1916. [23] See "Message from M. Venizelos," in _The Times_, 27 Sept., 1916. [24] The _Daily Telegraph_, 5 Oct., 1916. [25] The _Daily Telegraph_, 7 Oct., 1916. [26] The authentic history of the Venizelos family begins with our hero's father; his grandfather is a probable hypothesis: the remoter ancestors with whom, since his rise to fame, he has been endowed by enthusiastic admirers in Western Europe, are purely romantic. In Greece, where nearly everyone's origin is involved in obscurity, matters of this sort possess little interest, and M. Venizelos's Greek biographers dwell only on his ascent. [27] For one side of this affair see _Memorandum de S.A.R. Le Prince Georges de Grece, Haut Commissaire en Crete, aux Quatre Grandes Puissances Protectrices de la Crete_, 1905. The other side has been expounded in many publications: among them, _E. Venizelos: His Life, His Work_. By Costa Kairophyla, pp. 37-65; _Eleutherios Venizelos_. By K. K. Kosmides, pp. 14-16.