BRITAIN'S ALLY.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 4148, 19 November 1920, Page 2

BRITAIN'S ALLY.

CONSTANTINE STATES HIS

POLICY

NO CHANGE IN GREEK . FOREIGN POLICY.

.By lileoirio Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Aust.-N.Z. Caiilo Association.) London, November 18. The Daily Now,<> correspondent had an interview at Geneva with Constantino, who stated that if the Allies asked the Crown Prince to become King ho would make the .same answer as his brother Paul. "I have ifiways regarded myself ati King of the Hellenes," said Constantine. "If 1 return, I believe that the foreign policy ol Greece will be the same as to-day. it/ tvill be to the interest of , Great Britain to have Greece as an i ally, it always has been my idea to havo Britain as an ally, owing to Greece s geographical position. I did not want to take part in the war, cither as a, friend of Germany or of Britain. 1 Avanted to remain neutral. All the treaties will be ratified by the new Government. If Mustapa wants to clear us out of Smyrna, we. must light him-. Smyrna may bo ono of Venizelos' acquisitions, but that is no reason why Greece should act against her own interests." Constantine says that he never had a penny of the pension of £20,----000 which the Allies mentioned when he left Greece. He had never asked for it. ; -

NO CHANGE IN POLICY. London, November 17. ■< The Daily Express Athens correspondent had an interview with M. Rallis, who stated that he will make no change in Greece's foreign policy. Greece's destiny was bound ur> with the Allied cause. The Morning Post's Athens correspondent says that Venizelos' reputation abroad has harmed his cause, and lent colour to the accusation that he was under the thumb of-ior-eigners. In the eyes of the Greek peasant, Constantine stands for peac« and plenty, a low cost of living, and pre-war conditioiis generally.