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prime minister for a few months, but had no opportunity even to begin carrying out the policy which he had in mind. This policy was to develop the resources of his See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country so as to create an See also:

army and a See also:

FLEET

fleet, and thus to give Greece the See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power to acquire a leading See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place among the nations of See also:

south-eastern See also:

EUROPE

Europe. It was not until 1882 that he was able to take See also:

MEASURES

measures to this end. In that year he became prime minister for the third See also:

time (his second See also:

period of See also:

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office, two years earlier, had lasted only for a few months), and at once set about the task of putting Greek See also:

FINANCE

finance upon a firmer basis, and of increasing the prosperity of the country by making roads, See also:

RAILWAYS

railways and harbours. He was defeated at the See also:

general See also:

election in 1885, but in the following year he resumed office, and again took up the labour of economic and See also:

FINANCIAL

financial reform. His difficulties were now increased by the large See also:

EXPENDITURE

expenditure which had been incurred for military preparations while he had been out of office as the result of the See also:

union effected between See also:

Bulgaria and eastern See also:

RUMELIA, or ROUMELIA (Turkish Rumili, " the land of the Romans," i.e. the East Roman or Byzantine empire)

Rumelia. The Greeks had demanded from See also:

TURKEY

Turkey a See also:

COMPENSATION (from Lat. compensare, to weigh one thing against another)

compensation for this shifting of the See also:

BALANCE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. bilantia, an apparatus for weighing, from bi, two, and lanx, a dish or scale)

balance of power, and had prepared to enforce their demand by an See also:

APPEAL

appeal to arms. The Great See also:

POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

Powers, however, had interfered, and by blockading the Piraeus had compelled Greece to remain quiet.

Tricoupis, nevertheless, believed that he could in a few years raise the value of Greek See also:

paper currency to See also:

PAR (Lat. par, equal)

par, and upon that See also:

ASSUMPTION, FEAST OF

assumption all his calculations were based. Unfortunately for himself and his country, he was not able to make his belief See also:

GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good. His dexterity in finance called forth general admiration, and his schemes for the construction of roads and railways met with a certain amount of success. But at last he was obliged to recognize that the warnings offered to him had been See also:

sound. Greece could not meet her obligations. Tricoupis tried to make terms with the creditors of his nation, but he failed in this also. The first See also:

taxation which he proposed aroused great hostility, and in See also:

JANUARY

January 1895 he resigned. At the general election, four months later, he and his party were defeated. He at once retired from public See also:

LIFE

life, and soon afterwards the disease declared itself which eventually proved fatal. He died at See also:

CANNES

Cannes on the lrth of See also:

APRIL

April 1896. The faults of excessive ambition and of a far too sanguine optimism, which marked Tricoupis' See also:

CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character, could not prevent him from being regarded, even during his lifetime, as the foremost Greek statesman of his time. He was not a favourite with the populace, nor was he beloved so much as respected by his followers.

By nature he was reserved—his See also:

NICKNAME

nickname was " the Englishman " —and he had no sympathy with the arts of the See also:

DEMAGOGUE (Gr. Srlµaywybs, from iyety, to lead, and Siµos, the people)

demagogue. But, both in the ranks of his own party and by the nation at large, his abilities and his force of character were unquestioned. It was his misfortune that thecircumstances of the time did not allow his wide schemes for the benefit of his country to be carried into effect. (H. H.

End of Article: TRICOUPIS (or TRICOuPI), CHARILAOS (1832—1896)

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