Venizelos replied to the accusations by submitting once again his resignation, with the reasoning that for him it would be impossible henceforth to collaborate with the Committee's members ; he assured the Commissioner however that he did not intend to join the opposition.

After many postponements the King agreed to assign Stephanos Dragoumis ( Venizelos ' indication ) to form a new government that would lead the country to elections once the League was disbanded.

The end of 1920 with the death of the King of Greece, Alexander, the fall of Eleftherios Venizelos and the dramatic return of King Constantine I to the throne, brought Greece once more to the fore in international politics.

As Venizelos had expected, during the Prince's journey, the Great Powers rejected his request.

* Athens Eleftherios Venizelos Airport via the Proastiakos suburban railway service

Service on the line will include one train per hour each way during the day ; travel time between the two terminals is one hour, and service is also extended to Athens ' Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport.

After a coup deposed King Constantine during the First World War, Crown Prince George, by then a Major, followed his father into exile in 1917 ( see National Schism ); his brother Alexander was installed as king by prime minister Eleftherios Venizelos, an avowed Republican.

Alexander was immediately opposed to the Cretan's views and, annoyed by the king's rebuffs, Venizelos threatened to remove him and set up in his place a regency council in the name of Prince Paul, then still a minor.

Eleftherios was born in Mournies, near Chania ( also known as Canea ) in then – Ottoman Crete to Kyriakos Venizelos, a Cretan merchant and revolutionary.

In April 1910 a new assembly was convened and Venizelos was elected chairman and then Prime Minister.

When Venizelos was forced to flee Athens, Papandreou accompanied him to Crete, and then went to Lesbos, where he mobilised anti-monarchist supporters in the islands and rallied support for Venizelos's insurgent pro-British government in Thessaloniki.

Venizelos then rose to reply to the president and to thank the Chamber for its welcome, and also to present three treaties to parliament.

It is perhaps worth recording here that the Chamber which was now dissolved was that which had been elected in 1915 and had been dissolved by King Constantine in the following year, and had then been recalled by Venizelos in 1917.

It was relocated to Hellenikon, Athens after the catastrophe of 1922 by invitation of Eleftherios Venizelos, then Prime Minister of Greece.

That same year, the Benaki Hall was dedicated by Eleftherios Venizelos, then Greece ’ s Prime Minister and an ardent supporter of the school.

Founded as the Xipoliton (" barefoot ") party in Crete ( then an autonomous region of the Ottoman Empire ), its early leaders were Kostis Mitsotakis ( grandfather of Konstantinos Mitsotakis ) and Eleftherios Venizelos.

Finally in 1908 Venizelos managed to establish a revolutionary government, recognized by the Great Powers.

Venizelos, as a representative of the Cretan rebels, met the admirals of the Great Powers on a Russian warship on 7 March 1897.

Venizelos played an important role towards this solution, not only as the leader of the Cretan rebels but also as a skilled diplomat with his frequent communication with the admirals of the Great Powers.

The four Great Powers assumed the administration of Crete ; and Prince George of Greece, the second son of King George I of Greece, became High Commissioner, with Venizelos serving as his minister of Justice from 1899 to 1901.

In a meeting of the Executive Committee, Venizelos expressed his opinion that the island was not in essence autonomous, since militarily forces of the Great Powers were still present, and that the Great Powers were governing thought their representative, the Prince.

The Great Powers ' consuls met with Venizelos in Mournies in an attempt to achieve an agreement, but without any results.

The Great Powers ' consuls met Venizelos again and accepted the reforms he had proposed.

Map of Megali Hellas ( Great Greece ) as proposed at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 by Eleftherios Venizelos, the leading major proponent of the Megali Idea at the time.

The highly favourable bargains which the Greek kingdom had been able to make with the Great Powers had been due almost entirely to the statesmanlike qualities and the extraordinary tact which had been displayed throughout the discussions by the Greek prime minister, Eleftherios Venizelos.

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There, Venizelos established a provisional revolutionary government, which declared war on the Central Powers.

Venizelos had stated that King Constantine and his advisers had undertaken obligations towards the Central Powers.

On the other hand, Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos believed that Greece had an obligation to help Serbia and enter the war with the Allies against the Central Powers.

When Eleftherios Venizelos, Prime Minister at the time, was asked if the Greek army should move towards Thessaloniki or Monastir ( now Bitola, Republic of Macedonia ), Venizelos replied " Salonique à tout prix!

His disagreement with Eleftherios Venizelos over whether Greece should enter World War I led to the National Schism.

Although Venizelos was a friend of Petros Manos, Aspasia's father, the prime minister preferred that the king should marry Princess Mary of the United Kingdom, to consolidate the relationship between Greece and Britain.

The Hellenic Parliament demanded the exclusion of Constantine I and Crown Prince George from the line to the throne ( leaving Venizelos to conceal his republican views ), resolving on 29 October 1920 that Alexander's younger brother, Prince Paul, should ascend to the throne.

Venizelos intervened and insisted that Thessaloniki, as a major city and strategic port in the surrounding area, should be taken at all costs and thus a turn to the east was necessary.

Little was heard of Greek internal affairs in the meantime, the attention of the whole nation being centred on Venizelos ' efforts abroad to procure a settlement which should be as painless as possible for his country.

Venizelos said that it was therefore necessary to elect a regent to serve during the interval, and he proposed that Admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis should be elected to that post.

The leadership was offered to the now ex-Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos, who strongly believed that Greece should enter the war in favour of the Allies.

Venizelos agreed on condition that military units should be committed on all fronts and not only in Macedonia.

* 1905 – Eleftherios Venizelos calls for Crete's union with Greece, and begins what is to be known as the Theriso revolt.

Eleftherios Venizelos, who hailed from Mournies near Chania, was the leader of the 1896-97 uprising against Ottoman rule and went on to be Prime Minister of Greece and a great statesman.

In its aftermath, Constantine and his brothers were dismissed from the armed forces, only to be reinstated a few months later by the new Prime Minister, Eleftherios Venizelos, who was keen on gaining the trust of King George.

Venizelos notified Constantine that "... political considerations of the utmost importance dictate that Thessaloniki be taken as soon as possible ".

Despite his anger towards Alexander and Aspasia's union, Venizelos allowed her and her mother to move into the royal palace on the condition that the marriage not be made public.

Venizelos said to the Prince that it would not be proper to give hope to the population for something that wasn't feasible at the given moment.

In 1930, Venizelos even went on an official visit to Turkey, where he proposed that Mustafa Kemal be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

In the early 1980s, the Bay of Laganas was seriously threatened as a nesting habitat, but thanks to the efforts of MEDASSET founder and president Lily Venizelos it could be preserved.

At the invitation of the Greek Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos he submitted a plan on 20 October 1919 for the creation of a new University at Smyrna in Asia Minor, to be named Ionian University.

Venizelos said that so soon as the Chamber was dissolved, martial law and the censorship would be abolished, and the general election would be held in the autumn.

Replying to the charges of his opponents, Venizelos said that he would guarantee that the elections would be held under conditions of absolute liberty.

Venizelos declared openly that if he and the Liberal Party were returned to power the result would be a condemnation of the claims of King Constantine.

According to Eleftherios Venizelos ' plans right after the end of the First World War, Smyrni was intended to be the seat of the second Greek university, while the third university was to be established in Thessaloniki.

Additionally, after Take Ionescu's death, Venizelos donated a bloc of Parian marble to be used for the politician's bust ( ultimately placed inside the Chamber quarters on Mitropoliei Hill ), and another marble bloc to be used for his grave in Sinaia Monastery.

Eleftherios Venizelos, forecasting the problems of law and order that would be presented after the liberation of the city and knowing that the Bulgarians and other European nations would like to promote a picture of chaos and a Greek state incapable of imposing order, ordered Cretan Gendarmerie units to be transported to the city.