Greece Of Tomorrow

GREECE OF TO MO R ROW EDITED BY GEORGE H. CHASE DEAN OF THE UNIVERSITY, HARVARD UNIVERSITY PUBLISHED BY AMERICAN FRIENDS OF GREECE 30 ROCKEFELLER PLAZA - NEW YORK . FOREWORD PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT recently extended an invitation to citizens and pri vate organizations to draw up plans for the post war period. There cannot be too much discussion of this land, he wrote in a letter to the St. Louis Post Dispatch published February 20, 1943, and there could not be a bet ter time for it. He also placed emphasis on the important job of education to be done so that the tragedy of war would not come again and on the fact that we are fighting for freedom not only for ourselves but for all peoples everywhere. Under Secretary of State, Sumner Welles, voiced the same thought in a recent letter to Professor Ralph Barton Perry, Chairman of the Harvard Group of American Defense, and a member of the Board of Trustees of our organization. He expressed appreciation of the work groups of citizens are doing to further public understanding of the issues of the war. I should like to emphasize, he added, that the articulation of American public opinion is a powerful and constructive factor in our dealings with foreign governments. The problems of the peace to follow this war seem to be more complex and the demands upon statesmen more compelling than at the end of any previous war. The conviction is growing that we must succeed in achieving a just and lasting peace, if our civilization is to survive. Much intelligent thought is being given in all quarters to the problems of peace and to the realization of the Four Freedoms that have become the beacon to our thought. As a modest contribution to this thinking, weoffer here a number of papers dealing with some problems of peace as they affect Greece, a coun try to which we feel eternally indebted for what she has given to the world throughout her long history, and during the present war. G. H. C. J J J W - x r Monastir Argyrocasfr i Jannina Preveza J mRA, VOMHO Kalavn Pyrg PilosV 30 60 90 120 150 KILOMETERS 60 f Lamic CorinTF, E S U sana ArgOS Tripoli Malec f of Greenwich O CHUM DODECANESE ISLANDS Italia CONTRIBUTORS GEORGE H. CHASE, Dean of the University, Harvard University, Chairman of American Friends of Greece. SHIRLEY H. WEBER, Librarian of the Gennadeion Library at Athens. EDWARD CAPPS, Professor Emeritus, Princeton University, for mer American Minister to Greece, Honorary Chair man of American Friends of Greece. SARAH WAMBAUGH, Specialist on international affairs, former Adviser to the Peruvian Government for the Tacna-Arica plebiscite and Technical Adviser and Deputy member of the Saar Plebiscite Commission. JOHN H. YOUNG, Research Fellow, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Member of University of Pennsyl vania Expedition to Curium, Cyprus. WILLIAM M. CHADBOTJRNE, Member of the New York City Bar. ABBOTT P. USHER, Professor of Economics, Harvard University. STEPHEN P. LADAS, Corresponding Member, Academy of Athens, author The Exchange of Minorities Bul garia, Greece and Turkey. CONTENTS OUR DEBT TO GREECE - by George H. Chase 9 GREECE AND THE GREEKS OF TODAY - by Shirley H. Weber 16 GREECE AND HER NEIGHBORS 26 Relations with Bulgaria Relations with Albania - by Edward Capps THE LIBERATION OF THE DODECANESE ISLANDS - by Sarah Wambaugh 45 THE UNION OF CYPRUS WITH GREECE - by John H. Young 54 GREECE AND HER SHIPS - by WilliamM. Chadbourne 64 THE POST-WAR ECONOMIC WELFARE OF GREECE - by Abbott P. Usher 76 GOVERNMENT AND PEOPLE IN POST-WAR GREECE - by Stephen P. Ladas 86 OUR DEBT TO GREECE THE HEROIC DEFENSE of the Greeks against overwhelming odds and their continuing warfare upon their oppressors have once again called the atten tion of the Western world to the land from which our European and Ameri can culture was so largely drawn and to our debt to Greece. On many aspects of that debt it is unnecessary to dwell...