From: dk0a@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (DIMITRIOS KOUVATSOS)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.greek
Subject: Re: IRA-OSE, British behavior, and a "clean sheet fot Paeonia"
Date: 1 Oct 92 01:59:05 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <scg.717842133@cs.wisc.edu>, scg@bashan.cs.wisc.edu ( Scg) writes:
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>In article 12787 of soc.culture.greek, dk0a@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu
> (DIMITRIOS KOUVATSOS) writes :
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>(stuff deleted) .....
>> War II. I will let a British writer, who recently answered Mr. Malcolm's
>> smear against Greece in the "Spectator" with an article in that same magazine
>> (September 12), speak. Patrick Leigh Fermor writes, in the article "A clean
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>> sheet for Paeonia":
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>        My memory is not very reliable, but I'm pretty sure that Patrick
>Lee Fermor is one of the two SAS commandos that abducted the German
>General Kraipe from Crete in cooperation with the Cretan resistance.
>It's an amazing story and there are pictures of PLF with the traditional
>Cretan dress (vrakes-stivania).
>
>So, PLF continues in his article :
>> I would not expect this to ring a bell to people like Mr. Fear - yet it is
>> true that during the hard, bleak period of 1940-1941, when France had
>> collapsed, Russia was still friendly with the seemingly all-conquering Axis,
>> America was neutral and Great Britain was fighting for survival, little
>> Greece alone was the only country fighting on Britain's side, first beating
>> the Italians and then taking on both Italy and Nazi Germany to the end
>> (without requesting an armistice like the French, and being instrumental in
>> fatally delaying the German invasion of Russia) instead of accommodating the
>> Axis powers by allowing them bases in Greece against Britain as the Italians
>> had demanded, the only ally in Britain's desperate time of need... Winston
>> Churchill would never forget it, yet after the war, and starting with the
>> Cyprus issue, the British adopted a consistent anti-Greek and pro-Turkish
>> policy (while Turkey had unashamedly betrayed its traditional British
>> protectors in 1915 by entering WWI on the side of Germany and shutting off
>> the Straits) and even today they remain the comparatively more negatively
>> inclined to Greece of the larger European countries.
>
>Nice to hear from you, Patrick Lee Fermor.
>
>> Dimitris Kouvatsos
>
>Vassilis Zervakis
>Oregon State University
>

A correction here. I quoted some passages from Fermor's article, including
one in which he characterizes Greece as Britain's only ally in her most lonely
and dangerous moments, but this particular paragraph you quote was written by
me, not Fermor.

regards,
Dimitris Kouvatsos

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