Francis Elliot
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Sir Francis Edmund Hugh Elliot was a British diplomat who was envoy to Greece for 14 years.
Sir Francis Elliot
National Schism
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The National Schism, also sometimes called The Great Division, was a series of disagreements between King Constantine I and Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos over Greece's foreign policy from 1915
Francis Elliot
…of Venizelos set up a provisional state in northern Greece with Allied support with the aim of reclaiming the lost regions in Macedonia, effectively splitting Greece into two entities. After intense diplomatic negotiations and an armed confrontation in Athens between Allied and royalist forces (an incident known as…
Eleftherios Venizelos (left) and King Constantine I (right) prior to the National Schism c. 1913
King Constantine I judged that Greece's interests were best served by remaining neutral in the First World War.
Demonstration in Athens in favour of Constantine, summer 1915
Eleftherios Venizelos, the Greek Prime Minister, believed that Greece's interests were best served by entering the war on the side of the Allies.