Grecian Independence, 1824

IT is HARDLY au courant, these days, to refer to the "glory that was Greece"; her present battle for independence and liberty against foreign aggressors gives her all the glory and vitality of olden days. And those who look upon today's struggle against the Axis as, perhaps, the first revival of spirit since the days of ancient history, we respectfully refer to an article gotten up by Professor Churchill Lathrop, elsewhere in this issue.

Greece, with the same fire as she has today, fought in 1824 for her freedom against the aggression of the Ottoman Empire which was backed by the Holy Alliance. At the beginning of that historic year, Daniel Webster thrilled the American Congress with a speech in support of the Greeks which seems to have been one of his greatest bursts of oratory. The timeliness of his words as we read them today can hardly be described.