Η περιοχή μας και η ανατύναξη της γέφυρας του Δεμιρ Ισσάρ, στο βιβλίο Constantine I and the Greek people, του Paxton Hibben, 1920 ing to compel the return of Venizelos to power, and through that means to add the Greek army to the Entente forces in Macedonia. The as- surances contained in the British Legation's communique of November 19, 1915, that "it is not the intention of the Alhed powers to constrain Greece to abandon her neutrahty" were shown to have been mere paper words marking a subtler policy of undeclared, but effective, hostility to every other regime in Greece save that of the Allies' man, Venizelos. This "unconstitutionality" thesis was an afterthought. Venizelos himself had first accepted the Constitution of the Zaimis cabinet, and then had overthrown it, forcing the dissolution of the Boule and new elections. It was only when he became convinced that elections would spell his defeat that he re- called the existence of the Constitution, ar