Eleftherios Venizelos
said
England in all her wars has always gained one battle - the last!
— The World Crisis, The Aftermath : Chapter XVIII (Greek Tragedy), Churchill, Butterworth (1929), p. 381.
Eleftherios Venizelos
Greek politician, former Prime Minister of Greece (1864-1936)
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Lived 1864–1936, aged 72
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He doubled Greece's size through two Balkan wars, split the country down the middle in a decade-long political schism with the king, then died sentenced to death in Paris after a coup attempt to keep him in power.
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A leader of the 1897 Cretan Revolt, Venizelos secured his island's autonomy and later its union with Greece, leading the Theriso revolt in 1905. Invited to Athens in 1909 to break a political deadlock, he became prime minister and overhauled the constitution, the economy, and the military. His diplomacy won Greece entry to the Balkan League; the wars of 1912–1913 liberated Macedonia, Epirus, and most of the Aegean, doubling the nation's territory and population. In World War I he brought Greece in with the Allies, but his foreign policy collided with the nonaligned King Constantine I, fracturi…
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Eleftherios Venizelos
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One cannot kick against geography!
— p. 31 ; Part of Venizelos' arguments with king Constantine why Greece should join with the Allies in the World War I.
Eleftherios Venizelos
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Of course the King is mistaken. But is natural that he should be frighten of taking the plunge. We have lost a great opportunity by not intervening at once.
— p. 176 ; After one of the many attempts of Venizelos to persuade King Constantine, that Greece should join the Allies in the World War I.
Eleftherios Venizelos
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I do not wish to depreciate his great gifts and attainments in a country which unfortunately, if I may say so without offense, is suffering from a temporary lack of leading men.
— p. 165; In discussing the responsibility of Zaimis, Venizelos himself remarked in the Greek Chamber.
Eleftherios Venizelos
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Recognizing the need for the [political] education of the Greek People and its emancipation from personal parties, I shall work ...
— Venizelos formulated his intentions upon the founding of the Liberal Party in 1910.
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