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#OTD in #WW1 Landing at #Salonika, Greek PM #Venizelos sacked, #Foch & Sir John French annoying each other

It’s all going off today. With what’s obviously a major British-French landing at Salonika in progress, King Constantine I of Greece uses his reserve powers to sack his pro-Entente Prime Minister, Venizelos, and never mind Venizelos’s democratic mandate to govern. On the other hand, as swift diplomacy soon finds out, Constantine has no intention to oppose the landings, or the men’s passage…