[7] The _Daily Mail_; The _Evening News_, 16 Nov, 1920; Reuter, Athens, 15 Nov.: "Not a single Venizelist was returned for Macedonia and Old Greece, except in Epirus and Aegean Islands." [8] We learn that his followers "urged upon him the advisability of a _coup d'etat_. It would have been the easiest thing in the world to carry out, and with so much at stake for Greece and for democratic principles generally, it seemed justifiable."--"M. Venizelos at Nice," in _The Times_, 29 Nov., 1920. But, "fears are entertained, it is said, that the regular Army--which is strongly anti-Venizelist--may get out of hand."--The _Daily Mail_, 17 Nov. [9] The terms of the Note were communicated to the House of Commons by Mr. Bonar Law the same night. [10] Reuter, Athens, 9 Dec., 1920. [11] Another version of this refrain, which might be seen in crude lettering over a cafe at Phaleron, is: "So we willed it, and we brought him back" (_Etsi to ethelame, kai ton epherame_)--a distinct expression of the feeling that the people, by bringing back its sovereign in the face of foreign opposition, asserted its own sovereignty. [12] See _The Times_, 20 Dec.; The _Daily Mail_, 21 Dec., 1920. {230} AFTERWORD In default of a Providence whose intervention in human affairs is no longer recognized, there still is a Nemesis of history whose operations can scarcely be denied. International morality, strange as the juxtaposition of the two words may seem, exists no less than the law of gravity; and a statesman who offends against the one must expect much the same catastrophe as an engineer who ignores the other. But it is not often that this law of retribution asserts itself so swiftly as it has done in the drama for which Greece supplied the stage to French statesmen during the last few years; for it is not often that a Government in the pursuit of practical interests overlooks so completely moral principles, flouts so openly national sentiments, and, while priding itself on realism, shuts its eyes so consistently to realities. The logic of French action is as above reproach, as its motives are beyond dispute.