Volume 31, Number 15 · October 11, 1984
The Grab for Greece
By C.M. Woodhouse
The Prelude to the Truman Doctrine: British Policy in Greece 1944-1947
by G.M. Alexander
Oxford University Press (Clarendon Press), 299 pp., $46.00
Most Greeks believe that Greece is the center of the earth. The belief has more than twenty-five centuries of history behind it, for in the ancient temple of Apollo at Delphi there stood a carved stone known as the 'navel of the earth.' A few years ago President Karamanlis, who has been trying for years to educate his fellow countrymen in the facts of international life, was alarmed to be told by the French archaeologists at Delphi that they had unearthed the original stone which was called the navel of the earth. 'I begged them to throw it into the sea,' he told his astounded parliament. No one but Karamanlis, with his unique prestige, could have uttered such a heresy without starting a riot.
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