W. Churchill'in E. Venizelos'a, Yunanistan'ın İngiltere'ye olan savaş borcunun tasfiyesine ilişkin mektubu.

My dear monsieur Venizelos, I have once again considered the various points which you put to me, both orally and in writing, with regard to the Greek war debt and have studied, with all the care and sympathy i can command, the past history and present position of this question. Let me say at once that i feel very great sympathy with the Greek Co- vernment in this matter. The intervention of Greece, under your sta- tesmalike.leadership, on the side of the Allies, and the subsequent collaboration of her troops with the Allied forces throughout the cam- paign in the near East, are fresh in my memory. That war was brought, at length, to a conclusion and Greece might well have expected a period of peace in which to enjoy her share in the fru- its of the common victory. In this expectation she has been deceived. She was left alone to continue the struggle against her secular foe and finally saw her war-weariad armies overwhelmed by disaster and thrown out of Asia Minor with immense losses.It is too early yet to estimate the precise degree of responsibility which attaches to each party for this result and you would, I am sure, not be unready to ad- mit that there were faults, both of omission and of commission, on the part of Greece, as well as of her Allies. But, wherever the primary re- sponsibility for these tragic events will be found to rest, the fact remains that Greece has emerged from the wars with Germany and Turkey weakened and harassed with troubles, both external and internal, which