NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 202, 24 May 1944, Page 6

NOTES AND COMMENTS

Loaders of Greek political parties, after their r ®” t a message to tho British Prime Minister thanking him for the nteiest take in our country aud her future.” They added that “tds « snrin-s from a more than century-old tradition winch is den to Xk Vople ” There are English names that are stiil Honoured in Greece among them. Byron and Gladstone. One of the early >’ ub,lc / 1 ’’ t,eb great statesman was to tour the lonian Isles as high commissions txt . Srd W J and the Greeks remember how the British anthor.ties, m 863. handed over to them seven of the islands to become part ofl he Ungdom. Several of the international conferences which weie ini s • road to Greek independence wore held in London, and °’ the convention of 1832, and the treaty of 1863 wore »1 ~ British influence was exercised to help the Cte .11l sa • . . J during the war of 1914-18 and after, and the unsolicited pledge which.the leaders have given to Mr. Churchill to work for naiiona unitv shows what value they place on this historic tr.cnds n, G. c and'the Greeks have suffered much under the ruthless control of tin Axis Powers and their satellites, but they light on and clearly strength Ho the knowledge that “the help of our great allies and spet.all) under her dauntless leader, will not be found wanting.

■ “For the people of southern Italy the war is over, and they make H annovinglv plain-that they do not care who fights who from lieu- on ZAd >■«..««»n -M-•«"" x respondent sums up his impressions of a lecent touti ' through now under Allied occupation. “As you drive north tow d t« * oul > village after village, so bomb-blasted and artillery-blasted that then lose village nitu vni.i b t, disconcerting apathy of Ki:iSLa eZiete apathy Whieb = dowm to the roots of post-war Italy today." Tins diagnosis, if gest the conclusion that nearly a quarter ot a ecu uij < • t a i- c ihn livoq of the Italian people has nunipeu Ship and State regimental ion of bls 0 s „ (1(1< , nl nn(l( , r „ CO ntheir " ,en,, " ity n " d T"Ln fLon re"‘.mints of multifarious kinds they dlt.ion of comparative freedom ftoni rcsirinnis apparently do not know what to do with it.