Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1920 — MRS. LEEDS NOT WELCOME [ARTICLE]
MRS. LEEDS NOT WELCOME
New York Greeks Hiss the Name of American Woman. New York, Nov. 26.—The Greek election was won by the Constantine royalist forces over Eleuthulos Venizelos, due so the propaganda financed by the widow of William B. Leeds, who recently married Prince Christopher of Greece, according to C. Varsadakla, ex-Greek consul In New York. The name of Mrs. Leeds was hissed. A meeting of the Venlzellst adherents at a Greek church here almost broke up in a riot when Demetrius Theophllatos. head of the Greek loyalists in America, was found to be present. Policemen rescued the royalist, who was spat upon and doused with water. A resolution was adopted asserting that the “Greeks of America” protest that the “restoration of Constantine would be against the vital interests of the nation.” The city of Winnipeg, Canada, boasts of having the largest individual railway yards In the, world, and khe cheapest electric light, the finest transportation facilities and widest streets in America.
