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Διοικητικές μεταβολές στην περιοχή του Σιδηροκάστρου, 1920

Το Οχυρό Ρούπελ στο βιβλίο Constantine I and the Greek people,1920 CHAPTER XIV FORT RUPEL The by-elections in Chios, Lesbos, and eastern Macedonia early in May resulted, as had been expected, in a complete victory for the Venizelists : Elephtherios Venizelos himself was elected, without opposition, in Lesbos. Even in eastern Macedonia, part of which Venizelos, when prime minister, had tried to turn over to Bulgaria, Constantine Jordanou, a Venizelist, carried the country by a small majority. Throughout newer Greece, come under Greek rule only since the Turkish war of 1912, Venizelos's policy of further increasing the size of Greece by accretions in Asia Minor and Thrace appealed to the people. Many of them had relatives, property, or interests in Asia Minor and Thrace. They wished to see their friends and families freed of Turkish rule ; what might happen to Greece as a result of so large an increase in alien population—an an- nexation of territory extensively inhabited by S21

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