CULTURAL TIES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 February 1941, Page 5

CULTURAL TIES

THE BRITISH AND HELLENIC CONVENTION. EXTENSION OE FACILITIES FOR STUDY. (British OfTicial Wireless.! RUGBY, February 3. The closer cultural relations foreshadowed in lite recent preliminary announcement of a British-Hellenic convention are seen more clearly in the details of the convention issued today. In addition to the exchange of university professors and other men of Ivarmn;;, modern Greet; i?i p, be regarded ns ranking with other major European languages as a possible examination subject nt the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and London, while the study of the English language and literature will be facilitated at Athens University. The Briti; h School of Archaeology at Athens, established in lllSti. will be permitted to function in Greece, permission for tin- establishment of new centres being sought when desirable from the Greek Government. Treatment equally favourable in both countries will be extended to scholars, students and teachers in respect if rc-.’idencc and employment permits and recognition of either country's degrees and diplomas will be mutual. An interchange is to be made of students and scholars for study. particularlv in relati-m ' i art ami sport, for which travel arid residential faeihtie wdl be arranged. The Briii h Cmim-i! already established in Athens will haw- the right to ■ tai '■ an i maintain <> primary tHc I i N In ' ,: ■'' the articles f the -!!•-! 1 -:;o-.. ..-j g] >Jt ♦ - ’fj U?l<! A‘H-