January 1921

I venture today to direct my appeal, my supplication, to England, and, as unlikely as this might appear, I am almost confident to do so. I know that I still have numerous friends in this country, which is such a tremendous rival of ours, and, thank God, I know they are not all soulless financiers over there.

I am certain too that there are thousands of people of dignity and heart, those with all the human feelings and who remain capable of showing compassion. I know too that there are thousands who take fright at being governed by relentless speculators and who, when feeling distressed, collect en masse in churches to contemplate and offer sincere prayers. This is the last time I speak out publicly, for I have terminated my insignificant role on earth; the supreme warning of a man about to go out into the night tomorrow always has a chance to be heard.

Without malice or hate, I beseech the English today to allow themselves finally to be moved by the unfortunate Turks who are defending themselves in extremis with such heroic courage. May the English reflect once again, before supporting to the bitter end and in their own self-interest these base insignificant Greeks! They are shameless hypocrites and liars who have committed, and will continue to commit, every imaginable act of cowardice and every imaginable act of treachery, and who are not even aware that their idiotic boastfulness is nothing more than repugnant buffoonery. No, the English, our still-unappeased rivals, but who at least possess dignity and nobleness, will not allow the few baneful leaders, whose intransigence has already provoked Ireland, India and Egypt beyond measure against them, to complete their work, inflicting on the entire English nation the blemish of having thus crushed those already dying. May they not trust in those politicians who are at this very moment adding beneath their name in indelible letters the following description: ‘unrelenting profiteers’!

In this my final appeal, I shall not go so far as to ask them to support the poor Turks.