And so the drama which had been staged for more than a year by French diplomacy was satisfactorily wound up; and the curtain fell, amid the applause of the spectators.[30] [1] Jonnart, pp. 60-67. [2] _Ibid_, pp. 109-10. [3] Nouveau Recueil General des Traites. By Ch. Samwer, Vol. XVII, Part ii. [4] _Ibid._ [5] _Papers re Affairs of Greece_, 1830-32. [6] _Papers re Affairs of Greece_, 1826-30. [7] Wellington to Prince Leopold, 10 Feb., 1830. _State Papers_, 1820-30. [8] Duc de Broglie's Speech, 18 May, 1833. _Ecrits et Discours_, Vol. II, pp. 415 foll. [9] Communique of the Russian Government, Reuter, Petrograd, 7 July, 1917. [10] Jonnart, pp. 70-95. [11] Jonnart, pp. 102-4. [12] See Art. 45. [13] Jonnart, pp. 109-12. [14] When the Greek Premier did so, M. Jonnart repudiated it as "a mistake of M. Zaimis."--See _The Times_, 11 July, 1917. [15] _Le Depart du Roi Constantin_, Geneva, 1917, pp. 13, 14. [16] Jonnart, p. 113. [17] _The Times_, 11 July, 1917. [18] Even as it was, General Sarrail lamented the advent of M. Venizelos at Salonica as "a Greek master-stroke" calculated "to keep 'the coveted city' Greek."--Sarrail, pp. 153, 154. He evidently preferred not to have even a portion of Greece as an ally, that he might treat the whole of it as an enemy. [19] _Le Depart du Roi Constantin_, pp. 14-18. [20] Jonnart, pp. 116-7. [21] _Le Depart du Roi Constantin_, p. 11. [22] _Le Depart du Roi Constantin_, pp. 28-9. [23] _Le Depart du Roi Constantin_, pp. 26-7. [24] _The Weekly Dispatch_, 17 June, 1917. [25] _Le Depart du Roi Constantin_, pp. 30-1. [26] M. Jonnart, in _The Times_, 11 July, 1917. [27] _Le Depart du Roi Constantin_, p. 34. [28] _The Weekly Dispatch_, 17 June, 1917. [29] Jonnart, p. 128. [30] Of all English newspapers the _Weekly Dispatch_ (17 June, 1917) alone gave some account of this last scene of the drama. The rest atoned for their self-denial in narrative by proportionate self-indulgence in comment. One of them described the _coup_ as "a distinct gain both to _our_ interests in the East and to our _moral_ position in the world." British agents on the spot must have been strangely blind to this aspect of the business; for General Sarrail complains that the _coup_ succeeded in spite of the obstacles raised "by our allies, the English. It was _a contre-coeur_ that 500 of their men were furnished me for the descent on Thessaly. The Chief of the British Staff, no doubt by order, sought to learn my plans that he might telegraph them and ruin our action, etc."--Sarrail, p. 242. Without for a moment accepting the French General's suggestions of British double-dealing, we have every reason to believe that he was right in the view that the disgraceful affair did not enjoy British official sympathy. {200} CHAPTER XIX