Some onlookers are inclined to dismiss the current Greek revolt as merely another Balkan flare that will soon fizzle out. This eruption, however, involves every fighting Greek male, and has already provided "room for future generations" by killing and wounding several thousands. The rebellion, moreover, aside from its being the most serious in recent years, has international complications that are unpleasant to behold.

Bulgaria and Turkey are laying serious and singularly similar charges at each other's doors. Each accuses the other of massing troops on the Macedonian border and contemplating acquisition because of the internal turmoil in Greece. With loyal and rebel forces quite evenly matched, although the former is dominant on land and the latter is superior at sea, the probability that they both have designs on war-ridden Greece amounts almost to a certainty.

Macedonia, always a hotbed of intrigue with an indescribably mixed population, is now the storm center of the civil war. Bulgaria, deprived of a Mediterranean port after the World War, is hovering over the afflicted territory like a bird of ill-omen. Turkey, Jugoslavia, and Italy undoubtedly would not resist taking a morsel of Greece if it were dangled before their eyes. The one hope that Greece has of setting her affairs without interference and loss is to enlist British support. The British watchdog, with a sentimental interest since Byron and a commercial interest antedating that, has already growled but may have to do a little judicious nipping to preserve "the cause of Greek independence.