BRITAIN & GREECE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 January 1941, Page 5

BRITAIN & GREECE

CULTURAL AGREEAIENT

WELCOMED IN LONDON PRESS. MOTHER OF ARTS AND SCIENCE SALUTED. (British OfYicial Wireless.) RUGBY, January 11. The cultural agreement concluded by Britain with Greece is welcomed in the London Press as giving form to an ever-closer spiritual association. “The two countries,” says "The Times." "are linked by bonds more enduring than a military’ alliance. Early in the present conflict British professors saluted Greece as ‘a teacher of wisdom ot old and faithful mother still of the arts and scienc,’ and it is a compliment which Britain does not under-estimate that the Greeks show a keen desire to study the British way of life. When the first institute in Greece under the auspices of the British Council was recently opened in Athens, provision was made for 400 students, but immediately it became apparent that about 4000 wanted to attend and oven in war limo it is reported to have more than 3000 pupils.” "The Times" sums up the new treaty —the first of its kind—as marking “the growth of the idea that officially-spon-sored dealings between different nanons can mid should go side by side with political contact or a military alliance.”