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."
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Seligman, 1920, p. 165
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In discussing the responsibility of Zaimes, Venizelos himself remarked in the Greek Chamber.Eleftherios Venizelos
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