Venizelos Returns

Ex-Premier Eleutherios Venizelos, accompanied by his private secretary, M. Miachalopoulis, left Paris for Marseilles, and subsequently sailed from that port to Athens. He declined to make any comment upon his return to Greece, or upon his reasons for reversing his decision not to return.

A communique from the Greek Legation in Paris, announcing the ex-Premier's decision to return, said: "Immediately after the elections of Dec. 16, which assured the success of the Venizelist Party, urgent appeals were made to M. Venizelos to return to Greece, from which he has been absent since 1920.

"Yesterday the Greek Government sent him a telegram inviting his return, signed by 270 representatives of the Constituent Assembly and adding that 19 more signatures would be added as soon as the absent Deputies returned. Thus out of 396 national representatives nearly 300 have invited M. Venizelos to take the Government of the country into his hands.

"A telegram from Colonel Plastiras preceded this appeal, the Revolutionary leader imploring M. Venizelos to return to Athens before the meeting of the National Assembly and stabilize the situation.

"M. Venizelos replied yesterday to General Danglis and to Colonel Plastiras that in reply to the appeals which had been sent him he could not refuse his help, and that he would start for Athens immediately. His political action will be of temporary character only. He has no intention of constituting a Ministry under his leadership. All his efforts will be directed toward bringing the country back to a normal course."

The question of what M. Venizelos considered a "normal course" was the absorbing topic in numerous interested circles.

M. K. P. Tsolainos, a former secretary to Venizelos, wrote in an article for The New York World in which he asked questions and answered them as follows: "What is Venizelos going to do? Will he reinstate the exiled king or create a new dynasty for Greece? Will he acquiesce in the establishment of a Republic? Venizelos himself cannot just now state the course events will take."