BRITAIN AND GREECE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 10, 13 January 1941, Page 7

BRITAIN AND GREECE

FIRMLY LINKED

CULTURAL AGREEMENT

(British. Official Wireless.)

RUGBY, January 11

The cultural .agreement concluded by Britain with Greece is welcomed in the London Press as giving tangible 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, an old and faithful mother still of the arts and science,' 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 even in wartime 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 officiallysponsored dealings between different nations can and should go side by side with political contact or a military alliance."