I was right, for, though the ministry obtained a vote of confidence, and he was urged to withdraw his resignation, he refused.

In his charge the foreign policy of Italy was at its best.
I found affairs at Athens in a critical condition.

Deliyanni was trying the game of bluff which had succeeded in the hands of Comoundouros, but with quite a different measure of competence.

With Deliyanni it was an evident sham.

He had promised war without the least intention of preparing for it, in the childish expectation that Europe would oblige the Sultan to make some concession which would save his credit in the country and enable him to continue in office.
But circumstances were different; Greece had on the former occasion a valid claim, admitted by the powers, while on this there was only the pretension that Greece should receive a compensation for betterments acquired by Bulgaria.