Cultural Treaty In Anglo – Greek Unity

Northern Advocate, 13 January 1941, Page 7

Cultural Treaty In Anglo - Greek Unity

RUGBY, January 12

The cultural agreement concluded by Britain and Greece is welcomed by the London Press as giving tangible form to their ever-closer spiritual association.

“The two countries are linked by bonds more enduring than a military alliance,” says “The Times.”

“Early in the present conflict British professors saluted Greece as ‘the teacher of wisdom, old and faithful, mother still of the arts and sciences,’ but it is a compliment, which Britain does not under-estimate, that Greeks show a keen desire to study the British way of life. Demand, by Students. “When the first Institute of Greece, under'the auspices of the British Council, was recently opened in Athens, provision was made for 400 students, but it was immediately apparent that about 4000 wanted to attend, and even in wartime it was reported to have over 3000 pupils.” “The Times” sums up the new treaty—the first of its kind —as marking “the growth of the idea that officially sponsored dealings between different nations can and should go side by side with political contact or military alliance.”