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Excerpt from Hellas and Unredeemed Hellenism: The Policy of Victory in the East Issue and Its Results; Smyrna, a Greek City; Hellenism in Asia Minor in the Middle Ages If I am here to address you today, it is not because I have been asked to do so. It is I who have desired, speaking quite independently and on my own responsibility, to inform French public opinion of deeds and misdeeds, about the scandalous nature of which it entertains not the slightest suspicion. You will have no difficulty in believing me if I tell you that I am not, in any sense, yielding to a feeling of vanity. In the solemn feeling of expectancy in which the world is living at present, it would be a criminal act to make imprudent suggestions, and we should feel only scorn for a bad citizen who was capable of raising his voice for causes foreign to the interests of France and the future of peace. Having recently returned from a long journey which took me successively to Greece, Asia Minor, Constantinople, Thrace, Bulgaria and Macedonia, I feel that I am fulfilling a real duty in bearing testimony publicly to what I have heard and seen, and in pointing out the dangers into which a blind policy and egoistic interests threaten to precipitate a glorious and at the same time terrible victory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.