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By Theodore Kalmoukos

BOSTON, MA – A group ofparishioners from the commu-nity of St. Athanasius Church inArlington, MA, among themmany young people, gatheredon September 3, at the arrivalarea at Boston Airport, withsigns in their hands waiting toprotest His Eminence Method-ios, Metropolitan of Boston.

The reason for this unprece-dented event in the ecclesiasti-cal and Greek community ofBoston is the sudden dismissalof Fr. Nicholas Kastanas from St.Athanasius parish after 28 yearsof service there.

Metropolitan Methodios re-turned from Greece where hehad been since the end of July

ParishionersProtest at Airport

By Dr. Constantina Michalos

HOUSTON, TX – For most peo-ple, the weeks between June1st and November 30th do notinspire terror. Time for vacations,barbecues, swimming, outdoorfamily time, a gradual transitionto autumn, kids go back toschool, leaves change color, sodo wardrobes, Halloween, foot-ball, Thanksgiving.

Not so for us. This is hurricaneseason. Six months of waitingand watching. While others arepacking for their dream trips,we’re picking up our “HurricaneSurvival Guides,” published byevery local TV station and su-permarket, and checking off bat-

teries, water, non-perishables,medicines, generators, charcoal,tarps, extra cash. Granted we’renot paralyzed by fear, and lifedoes go on, but we are vigilant,watching the Atlantic, and es-pecially the Gulf, hoping for thebest and expecting the worst.

So the week of August 21stshouldn’t have been a surprise.But it was. On that Monday(Aug. 21), the first day of classes,we gathered on the lawn of ournew science building, ate moonpies, listened to a brief expla-nation of what was about tohappen, donned our nerd glass-es, and gazed through telescopesto watch 2/3 of the sun disap-pear in the middle of the day.How cool was that! People fromthe neighborhood joined us. Wequickly ran out of the 600 glasseswe had ordered, but we sharedwith everyone. Two little girlsdressed as Disney princesseskept their eyes down while Iput my glasses on them andguided their excited faces up-ward. What does one wear foran astronomical extravaganzalike this anyway? And then wewent to class. We gave out syllabiand explained how fabulous ourcourses are and what a privilegeit is. . .YaddaYaddaYadda.

On Wednesday, the weatherguys get serious. That little dis-turbance in the Gulf we had ig-nored has pretensions to some-thing greater. I go to the super-market after class and alreadythere is no water. Thursdaymorning, my workout consistsof moving everything from thepatio to the garage. I remindmy freshmen to listen to campusalerts, the syllabus will be revisedbased on the weather, and wewill fight the Trojan War a littlelater. My graduate students aremore sanguine, but not by much.The new university presidentannounces that classes will end

God Gave Rainbow toNoah: “No More Water”Tell That to Texas…

By Demetris Tsakas

HOUSTON, TX – AHEPASupreme President Carl Hollis-ter toured the flooded neighbor-hoods of Houston, TX. Movingscenes of the destruction causedby the hurricane as well as theresolve of those affected tostand up and repair the damagefrom the floods deeply im-pressed everyone.

Hollister was accompaniedby AHEPA's former SupremePresident, Anthony Kouzounis,the Alexander the Great Chapter29 Order of AHEPA Houston

President Doug Harris, the Pres-ident of the Hellenic CulturalCenter of the Southwest-YannisRemediakis, Elias Neofytides,and other AHEPA members.

A number of Greek-Americanhomes were visited, and, as Hol-lister said, they met people withhigh morale and heart. One ofthem, while he had sufferedgreat damage to his home, wasthinking of his neighbor whosehome had suffered even moredamage and would have to bedemolished.

A 78-year-old whose homesuffered hurricane damage

thanked Hollister and the otherAHEPA members and offered tomake a donation to the AHEPAHurricane Harvey victims’ relieffund.

At the AHEPA Houston head-quarters, Hollister gave AHEPAChapter 29 a check for $15,000to meet immediate needs andto provide first-aid assistance tothe Hurricane-affected Greeksin the area.

“This donation is the downpayment and we hope that thechapters of our organization

AHEPA Supreme President in Houston

French President Visits GreeceGreek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos and French President Emmanuel Macron, review the Pres-idential Guard in Athens. Macron arrived in Greece for a two-day visit during which he is ex-pected to discuss the future of the European Union and Greece's financial crisis.

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Bankrupt Archdiocese Layoffs, Budget Cuts

By Demetris Tsakas

ASTORIA – With more innova-tive and new projects, 20% newteaching staff, refurbished class-rooms and a rebuilt St. Cather-ine School, the new school yearbegan for the High School of St.Demetrios Astoria.

The High School of St.Demetrios Astoria is the onlyand largest daily Greek-Ameri-can school in all of the UnitedStates.

From 2001 until today, it hasbenefited from more than $2million in donations from theStavros Niarchos Foundation,which in 2001 was declared theGrand Benefactor of the School,while the portrait of StavrosNiarchos is in a prominent posi-tion opposite the Library.

The school year 2017-18, asmentioned by the Superinten-dent of the High School, Anas-tasios Koularmanis, begins dy-namically, with greater zeal andenthusiasm, thanks to theStavros Niarchos Foundation an-nouncement in the spring of its

A Dynamic Start to St. Demetrios’ School Year

By Andy Dabilis

ATHENS – The co-publisher ofthe Athens Review of Books saida defamation suit brought byForeign Minister Nikos Kotziasover a letter claiming he was a“fanatical Stalinist” was de-signed to stifle dissent againstthe ruling Radical Left SYRIZA,and shut down his publication.

Kotzias was awarded 22,000euros ($26,227) over the 2010letter – written before he wasForeign Minister. But ManolisVasilakis, who with his wifeMaria Vasilakis, runs the maga-zine, remained defiant and saidGreece’s justice system wasskewed in favor of politicians.

“Kotzias …. wants to shutdown the Athens Review ofBooks because he was and hasproved to remain a Stalinist,”Manolis Vasilakis told The Na-tional Herald in an interview hesaid had to be conducted by e-mail so his attorney could over-see answers, the publisher still

anxious about the wrath ofKotzias, a former member of theCommunist party which hasStalinist ideologies.

The magazine’s accounts

were reportedly frozen. Vasi-lakis said his defense showedthat Kotzias had to tell the Ger-man news magazine Der Spiegelthat he belonged to the centralcommittee of Greece’s KKECommunist party and that he“wrote on my party’s ordersthings about Poland, for exam-ple which were nonsense”.

Vasilakis said that, “But eventhen, without dignity, he put theblame on others. He was sup-posedly a simple propaganda or-gan who just wrote lies and non-sense”

The letter described the min-ister as having once been “themost extreme, fanatical, crueland relentless Communist of ourgeneration, a true gauleiter(petty official) of Stalinism,”which Vasilakis said was shownby Kotzias’ background in issu-ing Communist propaganda.

That included, Vasilakis said,the propagandist book Der au-

Publisher Blasts Defamation Suit

Students on the first day of school at St. Demetrios can look forward to a wonderful yearthanks to generous donations from benefactors including the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.

Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias.


NEW YORK – The Greek Ortho-dox Archdiocese of America onSeptember 5 terminated ap-proximately 28 to 30 of its morethan 105 employees.

Included are the staff of itsofficial publication, the Ortho-dox Observer, which the Arch-diocese does not have money tocontinue operating in print for-mat, planning to continue witha digital version only. Overall,it has made drastic reductionsin all of its departments.

Also, financial problems atthe Holy Cross TheologicalSchool have arisen because theArchdiocese has not sent itsmonthly installment for theSchool’s operational expensesfor several months.

The National Herald has pre-viously reported that the Arch-diocese has entered a de factobankruptcy stage, with a deficitexceeding $8.5 million. JerryDimitriou, who for the last 19years was in charge of adminis-

About 30 of the 105employees were let gofor financial reasons

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Greek Premier Alexis Tsipras,expected to face the wrath of ahost of civil servants and privateworkers while he appears at thecritical Thessaloniki Interna-tional Fair on Sept. 9, was hop-ing for a bounce there, alongwith a visit from French Presi-dent Emmanuel Macron.

The Radical Left SYRIZAleader will be kept far fromdemonstrations by police, fire-fighters, Coast Guard membersand now public workers fromthe country’s private sector la-bor union, GSEE, are planninga series of protests against hisavalanche of austerity and hisreneging on promises to help

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She may not have much – orany – chance to topple incum-bent Democrat Bill de Blasio tobe New York City’s Mayor, butRepublican Nicole Malliotakishas already shown she hasenough true grit to be a seriouscandidate with good ideas, theNew York Times said in an edi-torial praising her.

With a Cretan father andCuban-born mother, the NewYork State Assemblywoman,whose district runs from StatenIsland – the only borough car-ried by Donald Trump in the2016 Presidential campaign – toparts of Brooklyn, has shownshe has the mettle to handle theMayor’s job and go head onagainst the incumbent.

Getting there is another mat-ter, of course, with successfulRepublican candidates a rarebreed across the city and aneven more endangered speciesas Mayor, apart from RudolphGiuliani, who had big namerecognition, and MichaelBloomberg, one of the country’srichest persons.

The Times likened her taskof beating De Blasio, if heshould be nominated again, to

Malliotakis,Gutsy GOPCandidate

By Steve FrangosTNH Staff Writer

CHICAGO - It is an establishedfact of history that Walt andArthur Arfons were the first de-signer/mechanics to conceiveand drag race jet-powered cars.Between these two brothers thefirst records of jet-powered carswere set with various speed ti-tles exchanged between theduo. It is all a matter of the pub-lic record.

Walt Afrons (1916-2013)was “one of the first to employjet engines on land, he oncebriefly held the world landspeed record. Born WalterCharles Stroud, he was raisedin the Akron suburbs and tin-kered with motors from an earlyage. Following his leavingschool in the 10th grade, heserved four years as a Navy me-chanic then returned home tothe family feed mill. After teach-ing himself to fly using surplusWorld War II planes, he and hishalf-brother Art began drag rac-ing around 1952. Though es-tranged in later years the twomen started out as partners onthe drag circuit and in earlyyears split their prize money.

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NEW YORK – The Greek Ortho-dox Archdiocese of America is-sued an announcement denyingthe The National Herald’s reve-lation that the Ecumenical Pa-triarchate proposed that His Em-inence Archbishop Demetrios ofAmerica resign voluntarily andbe elected to MetropolitanGeron of Herakleia. In the an-nouncement, the Archdiocesecalled the information as “falseand baseless.”

The entire announcementfollows: “The Greek OrthodoxArchdiocese of America an-nounces that information pub-lished in a daily Greek-Americannewspaper stating that His Em-

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intention to donate $25 million.At about the same time, the

School benefited from the $1million donation made by theSchool Board Chairman, NickAndriotis, for the renovation ofthe Primary School of the Com-munity, located on ArchbishopIakovou Street (between 23rdAvenue and of the DitmarsBoulevard).

In the summer, as Koularma-nis pointed out, was the busiestfor himself and for Andriotis,because they had to deal withthe construction taking place atSaint Demetrios and SaintCatherine, and, also had to workwith the committee responsiblefor the viability study to imple-ment the historic donation ofthe Stavros Niarchos Founda-tion.

Koularmanis, among otherthings, personally worked onthe renovation of the highschool’s library. With the workcompleted, the library haschanged dramatically and with-out the slightest doubt we cansay that it is Greek, richer, andmore attractive for the studentsand teachers.

Asked about the specifics ofthe new school year, Koularma-nis pointed out that it is a his-toric year celebrating the 60thanniversary of the Day Schooland the 90th anniversary of thecommunity of Saint DemetriosAstoria. At the same time, henoted that this is the first timein his 18 years leading theschool that planning to improveand add new programs can bedone without worrying aboutthe financial costs.

“Our main concern is the im-provement and upgrading of theeducation provided and this isaccomplished in two main ways:The first by recruiting qualifiedteachers and the second by cre-ating the necessary conditionsfor the implementation of newprograms in the field of scienceand a variety of programs, suchas music, painting and design,theater and others,” he said.

Referring to the staff, hestressed that they have recruitednew teachers and that 20% ofthem will be teaching for thefirst time at the School.

This year, six teachers willalso be teaching posted directlyfrom Greece and Koularmanisexpressed gratitude for the in-terest of head of educational af-

fairs at the Consulate Generalof Greece in New York, ThaleiaChatzigiannoglou.

Teachers from Greece, asmentioned, are trained for therequirements of Americanschools and will contribute tothe further enhancement of theGreek Language and CulturePrograms. Asked about the ren-ovation of the school complexat St. Catherine, Koularmanispointed out that it is ultramod-ern, wireless, air-conditioned,and with more classrooms.

Referring to the number of

students, he said that there arecurrently six hundred and clari-fied that their goal is not thequantitative but the qualitativedifference.

This year, 10 young studentsfrom Greece have been enrolled,who have been added to morethan 50 who have come to NewYork because of the financial cri-sis. Therefore, one out of tenstudents attending St.Demetrios was born in Greeceand this creates a perfect blendto maintain and strengthen theGreek character of the school.

“Our school is similar to thebest private and public schoolsin New York. Moreover, this isevidenced by student perfor-mance in state examinationsand the admission of studentsto the best universities. It is also,if not the only one, at least oneof the few schools with fixedand low tuition fees,” Koular-manis pointed out.

Most students, as he men-tioned, come from Astoria andLong Island City, which are in-cluded in the areas of Queenswith increasingly expensive

rents and a skyrocketing cost ofliving.

That is why they providescholarships and financial assis-tance to students from low-in-come families who, as Koular-manis noted, are beingsubjected to great sacrifices toeducate their children.

The School has one of thebest Kindergartens, and moststudents graduating from highschool have studied at St.Demetrios the entire time. Atthe same time, pre-Kinder-garten, the Universal Pre-K is

funded by the City of New York,free of charge and open to allresidents. There are a few va-cancies and Koularmanis has in-vited the Greek community toregister their children in thisprogram.

The program ends every dayat 3 o’clock, but the school hasadded an extra hour each dayfor the teaching of the GreekLanguage and Culture.

On the basis of this program,the two school complexes haveacquired security staff this year,funded by the City of New York.

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Students started off the school year at St. Demetrios HighSchool in Astoria. The Day School is celebrating its 60th an-niversary this year while the community of St. Demetrios cele-brates its 90th anniversary.

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The Manhattan Chapter of The Order of AHEPA, Delphi 25, invites you to join us for a special Galaevent at The Loeb Central Park Boathouse in honor of Dr. Marinos Petratos. This event is tocelebrate a man who has over 50 years of public service and has been a pillar of the Greek-American community. Supplementing his extensive years of community dedication and service,Dr. Marinos Petratos is being honored for his lifetime of service to The Order of AHEPA, his serviceas a past President, and his continued support as Chairman of the Board of Governors of DelphiChapter # 25. Join us for this wonderful event comprised of a rich cocktail hour, a three-courseplated dinner, and unlimited prime liquor open-bar all night long!For further information, journal sponsorship, and tickets to the event go to: www.AHEPA25.org

on July 29, 2017, Orlando, FL

October 16, 2017 - 6.30 p.m.

2017 Chapter of the Year Awardat the

95th Annual AHEPA Family Convention

Invitation to Special Gala Event

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The Loeb Central Park Boathousein honor of

Dr. Marinos Petratos

Congratulations are also extended to Brother Louis Katsos, Delphi #25 Chapter Vice President and Director of Hellenism for the Empire State District Six,

for being awarded the 2017 AHEPAN OF THE YEAR awardat the Annual District Convention on June 10, 2017

at the Holy Trinity Cathedral, NYC.

AHEPA Delphi Chapter # 25 welcomes and invites allHellenic-Americans and Phil-Hellenes

interested in joining this Manhattan-based Chapterand furthering its good works and activities

to visit our website (www.AHEPA25.org) and to communicatewith us at: [email protected]

TNH Staff

HOUSTON, TX – The weatherforecast finally delivered hopeto Houston after five days of tor-rential rain submerged the na-tion’s fourth-largest city: lessthan an inch of rain and perhapseven sunshine. But the dangersremain. With at least 18 deadand 13,000 people rescued inthe Houston area and surround-ing cities and counties in South-east Texas, others were still try-ing to escape from inundatedhomes. Weakened levees werein danger of failing and a less-ferocious but still potent Harveywas on track to slam intoLouisiana overnight, the Associ-ated Press reported.

Greek-American HoustonianAlex Triantaphyllis, who is run-ning for Congress in Texas’ 7thDistrict, issued a statement: “Forthose of you in the Houston areaor other parts of Texas affectedby Hurricane Harvey, I hope youand your loved ones are safe.Christina, Mina, and I are thank-fully safe and dry. It is tough tosee others in much less fortu-nate situations, and we’ve beentrying to do our part to helpflood victims. We are mobilizingvolunteers on the ground, and Iwanted to share with you somelocal resources and ways youcan help those affected. We’ve

compiled a list (found atmedium/com/@alexfortexas).Lastly, wherever you are and ifyou can, please donate to theHurricane Harvey CommunityRelief Fund today. We will keepyou updated on other opportu-nities to help.”

Meanwhile, a much-weak-ened Tropical Storm Harvey wassteering into new territory. Me-teorologists said Harvey was

forecast to come inland aroundthe Texas-Louisiana line close toBeaumont, TX, with 45 mphwinds and heavy rains, sloggingthrough Louisiana before takingits downpours north. Arkansas,Tennessee and parts of Missouriare on alert for Harvey floodingin the next few days.

“Once we get this thing in-land during the day, it’s the endof the beginning,” said NationalHurricane Center meteorologistDennis Feltgen. “Texas is goingto get a chance to finally dry outas this system pulls out.”

After five consecutive days ofrain, Harvey set a new continen-

tal U.S. record for rainfall for atropical system. The rains inCedar Bayou, near MontBelvieu, TX, totaled 51.88inches (132 centimeters) as ofAugust 29.

Material from the AssociatedPress was used in this report.

By Demetris Tsakas

CORPUS CHRISTI, TX – “St.Nicholas performed a miracleagain and protected the churchand our community” said Fr.John Hayden Haby, presidingpriest at the St. Nicholas GreekOrthodox Church in CorpusChristi, TX. The Church Litur-gized on Sunday, Aug. 27, theonly one to do so in the areas ofTexas ravaged by Harvey whilethe hurricane was in progress.

The congregation joined Fr.Haby in prayer to God to limitthe damage and to protect thepeople of Texas, as well as thosewho undertook the difficult taskto rescue those trapped in theirflooded homes.

Though Corpus Christi wasaffected by Harvey early on, itdid not suffer as much devasta-tion as did Houston.

Fr. Haby told TNH that ini-tially, they thought they wouldnot Liturgize on the 27th, “butwhen we saw we had electricity,we decided to celebrate and topray to God and to SaintNicholas to make their miracleand to minimize the damage”he said.

The local parishioners suf-fered only minimal propertydamage, he told TNH, and mostimportantly, “all of them are ingood health.”

Many in Corpus Christi’sGreek-American community didnot abandon their homes andbusinesses, despite authorities’calls for evacuation. Greek-owned Niko’s steakhouse, for in-stance, remained open.

There are over 120 Greekfamilies in the city, many sec-ond- and third-generation withroots in Karpathos.

St. Nicholas is the only GreekOrthodox Church in CorpusChristi and attracts Orthodoxfaithful of various ethnic originsand churches from the sur-rounding area.

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Hurricane Harvey Doesn’t Stop St. Nicholas Liturgy in Corpus Christi

Many in Corpus Christi’s Greek-Americancommunitydid not abandontheir homes and businesses, despite authorities’ calls for evacuation.

St. NicholasGreek OrthodoxChurch in Cor-pus Christi heldthe DivineLiturgy on Sun-day after it wasspared the dev-astation thatstruck otherbuildings likethis one in hurri-cane-ravagedTexas. The de-structive force ofhigh winds, tor-rential rain, andflooding reducedmany structuresto rubble.

Triantaphyllis Assisting Victims of Hurricane Harvey

Congressional candidate Alex Triantaphyllis, with wife Christinaand baby Mina, is helping victims of Hurricane Harvey.

People stand on Hirsch Road to watch the sun set over theHouston skyline as Harvey moves out of the region.

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BALTIMORE, MD – The Na-tional Weather Service predictsan additional 50 inches of rain-fall in the Houston area, poten-tially causing more loss of life,extensive property damage, andhardship for the residents of theUnited States’ fourth-largest city.Fatalities are estimated to befive people thus far, with thou-sands more displaced acrossSouthern Texas and Louisiana.“The breadth and intensity ofthis rainfall are beyond anythingexperienced before,” theweather service said. “Cata-strophic flooding is now under-way and expected to continuefor days.”

International OrthodoxChristian Charities (IOCC), theofficial humanitarian agency ofthe Assembly of Canonical Or-thodox Bishops of the UnitedStates of America, is closelymonitoring the continuingflooding and aftermath of Hur-ricane Harvey. Staff membersremain in contact with part-ners, including members of na-tional and local VOADs (Volun-tary Organizations Active inDisaster) and local ecumenicalpartners, to provide support asneeded.

Additionally, IOCC is activat-ing the Frontliners – a volunteergroup of clergy and laity whoare highly trained in emotionaland spiritual care counselingand rapid needs assessment - todeploy to Southern Texas on Au-gust 30.

IOCC continues praying forthe safety and well-being of

those threatened by this storm.Gifts to the Hurricane HarveyResponse Fund (iocc.org/Har-vey) will help IOCC to respondwith flexibility and efficiency toconditions on the ground asthey develop, as well as to helpthe people of Southern Texasand Louisiana as they recoverand rebuild months and yearsafter the storm subsides.

“We pray for the people inthe Houston region, a place

close to my heart having grownup there,” said Constantine(Dean) Triantafilou, IOCC CEOand Executive Director. “Whilethe weather forecast may hintat danger, you can never fullyanticipate the scope and scaleof what will come – it is impor-tant to remember that our faithsustains us even in the mostchallenging of situations.” Moreinformation is available atiocc.org.

Rescue boats filled a flooded street as victims were evacuated from the rising floodwaters ofHurricane Harvey in Houston. Many lost everything and the relief effort continues.

AP PHOTO/dAvid J. PHilliP

IOCC Responds to Devastationof Hurricane Harvey

IOCC remains in contact with members of voluntary organiza-tions and local ecumenical partners to provide help as needed.

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GLENVIEW, IL – Our Lady ofPerpetual Help Roman CatholicChurch and Saints Peter andPaul Greek Orthodox Church,both in Glenview, IL, commem-orated the third annual SolemnVespers for the World Day ofPrayer for the Care of Creationon August 31, at Our Lady ofPerpetual Help Church.

Bishop Francis J. Kane, Aux-iliary Bishop of the Archdioceseof Chicago, presided at theevening prayer. His GraceBishop Demetrios of Mokissos,Chancellor of the Greek Ortho-dox Metropolis of Chicago, theVery Rev. Thomas A. Baima,Vicar for Ecumenical and Inter-religious Affairs of the Archdio-cese, and Polyxeni Petropoulou,Greek Consul General inChicago, were also in atten-dance. Bob Langert, editor-at-large for GreenBiz Group andformer vice president of sus-tainability at McDonald’s, wasthe featured speaker at a recep-tion following the service.

In 1989, the late EcumenicalPatriarch Dimitrios I of Con-stantinople designated Septem-ber 1 as a day of prayer for “theprotection of the environment”for Orthodox Christians, a tra-dition that has been continuedby his successor, His All Holi-ness Ecumenical PatriarchBartholomew I of Constantino-ple. Sharing concern for cre-ation with Patriarch

Bartholomew, in 2015, PopeFrancis instituted September 1as the “World Day of Prayer forthe Care of Creation” for Ro-man Catholics.

“Thankfulness for God’s cre-ation — of our world and our-selves — is a central elementof ancient Christian worship,and our proper stewardship ofthe environment is not onlypractically necessary, but spiri-tually important,” said BishopDemetrios of Mokissos. “Thatthis event underscores onemore shared belief is also some-thing for which we can begrateful in the continuing Dia-logue of Love between ourChurches.”

By joining together in prayerfor the Care for our CommonHome, Roman Catholic andGreek Orthodox Christians inChicago are heeding the callsof Pope Francis and EcumenicalPatriarch Bartholomew to pro-tect creation, especiallythrough prayer, education, andaction. The teachings of Ecu-menical Patriarch Bartholomewand of Pope Francis’ encyclical“Laudato si,” petition individu-als and communities to care forour common [earthly] home,

thus respecting the dignity ofevery human being, especiallythe poor, marginalized, and fu-ture generations.

“For years Christians haveaffectionately called the Ecu-menical Patriarch ‘the GreenPatriarch’ because of his tirelesspreaching on the dignity of cre-ation,” said Fr. Thomas Baima.“Bringing our sister churchestogether to offer prayers for thecare of our common home hasbeen a priority for CardinalBlase Cupich, Archbishop of

Chicago, and the late Metropol-itan Iakovos of Chicago. Theclose partnership we enjoy inChicago allows us to join to-gether around these issues ofcommon concern.”

The Roman Catholic Arch-diocese of Chicago, the thirdlargest in the United States,serves more than 2.2 millionCatholics in 344 parishes inCook and Lake Counties, a ge-ographic area of 1,411 squaremiles. The Archdiocese, pas-tored by Cardinal Blase J. Cu-

pich, has more than 15,000 em-ployees in its systems and min-istries, including Catholic Char-ities, the region's largestnonprofit social service agency.The Archdiocese also has oneof the country's largest semi-naries. The Archdiocese's 214elementary and secondaryschools comprise one of thelargest U.S. private school sys-tems and have garnered moreU.S. Department of EducationBlue Ribbon Awards than anysystem of any type.

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throughout the United Statesand Canada will help in the ef-fort to assist the flood victims,”he said.

Asked how many Greek-American homes have been hit,he noted that so far 48 AHEPAmembers have reported thattheir homes have been de-stroyed and it is predicted thatthe number will exceed 100.

Referring to the accommoda-tions for the victims that werevisited, Hollister pointed outthat they are well organized andhave special programs for chil-dren and young people. At thesame time, he noted that thelarge number of people takingshelter is much more than undernormal conditions and that theyare confronted with communi-cation problems, since they can-not charge their mobile phonesand communicate with their rel-atives.

Hellenic Cultural Center ofthe Southwest President YannisRemediakis pointed out thatwords fail to adequately expressthe destruction caused by Hur-ricane Harvey.

“Whole neighborhoods arecluttered with piles of debris,damaged furniture, plaster-board, fiberglass, clothes, TVs,and other household appliances.The city's garbage trucks areworking 24 hours a day, but thepiles continue to appear becausepeople must remove all the plas-terboard and strip houses downto the studs so they can ventand eventually allow the home-owners to start the difficult andcostly rebuilding later on,” Re-mediakis added.

Referring to the damage tothe Greek community’s property,

he explained that not only werethe houses affected but carswere also damaged.

The expatriates, Remediakisnoted, helped each other andeven loaned their cars so thatthose who lost their homes and

their cars could get around.The Hellenic Cultural Center

decided to use his websitewww.hcc-sw.org for both thefundraiser and the recording ofthe damage suffered by theGreek community and created

two links, the first for therecording and the second for thedonation of supplies and essen-tials (bottled water, food, babyfood, clothing, blankets).

Asked about the recording ofthe destruction, Remediakis said

that the project is quite difficultfor two reasons. The first is re-lated to the limited communi-cation capacities of Greek-Amer-icans who have been hit by thehurricane and flooding and thesecond to the fact that there are

many in the community who donot want to share their prob-lems with others.

The information collected sofar comes mainly from closefamily and friends in the af-fected area.

AHEPA Supreme President Visits Hurricane-Ravaged Houston

Top left: AHEPA Supreme President Carl Hollister visited families affected byHurricane Harvey including that of Stathis Demeris in Houston. Top right: Hel-lenic Cultural Center of the Southwest President Yannis Remediakis, AHEPA

Supreme President Carl Hollister, and AHEPA Chapter 29 President DougHarris. Above left: Piles of debris in the neighborhoods of Houston. Aboveright: AHEPA Supreme President Hollister, Remediakis, and other Ahepans.


PHOTOS: mACEdONiAN Tv Of uSA – EliAS NEOfyTidES

World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation

Roman Catholic Bishop Francis J. Kane, Greek Orthodox BishopDemetrios of Mokissos, and Roman Catholic Very Rev. ThomasA. Baima attended the service.

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n Thru ocTober 3ASTORIA – Greek Nights atAthens Square Park, 30th Av-enue and 30th Street in Astoria,presents live music every Tues-day at 7 PM, July 11-October 3.Panos Adamopoulos and GeorgeDelis, 2017 Program Directors.Free admission. Upcoming per-formers: Sept. 12- Julie Ziavrasand Kostas Psaros; Sept. 19-Nisafi Band; Sept. 26- Pan-cyprian Choir of NY, directorPhytos Stratis; and Oct. 3- Hel-lenic Voices of Long Island.More information is availableonline athenssquarepark.org.

n sePTember 8-10BOULDER, CO – Saints Peter &Paul Greek Orthodox Church,5640 Jay Road in Boulder, holdsits annual Greek Festival- ATaste of Orthodoxy. Enjoy au-thentic food, beer, and wine,live Greek music with JesseManno and Friends, dancingperformances, church tours,Byzantine Choir Singing, books,icons, gifts, and free admissionand parking. Hours- Friday,Sept. 8, 5-10 PM; Saturday,Sept. 9, 11 AM-10 PM; and Sun-day, Sept. 10, 11 AM-5PM. Moreinformation is available onlineat www.tasteoforthodoxy.organd by phone: 303-581-1434.

n sePTember 9TARPON SPRINGS, FL – On Sat-urday, Sept. 9, 6-11 PM, the Cityof Tarpon Springs will presentNight in the Islands–a free eventon the world famous SpongeDocks. Enjoy Greek music, danc-ing, and dining! And we will of-fer an hour of free Greek dancelessons by the Levendia DanceTroupe from 6-7 PM. Night inthe Islands will feature the ex-hilarating music of Odyssey, fea-turing Lefteris Asaridis onbouzouki; Emmanuel Gonatoson keyboard, baglamas, and vo-cals; and George Boulahanis onguitar. To reserve a table for din-ner, please contact participatingrestaurants Costa’s, Hellas,Mama’s, or Mykonos. Thanks tofunding from the National En-dowment for the Arts and theTarpon Springs Merchants As-sociation, Night in the Islandsalso will be offered Saturday,Oct. 7. Tentative dates for 2018are April 14, May 5, July 7, Au-gust 4, September 8, and Octo-ber 6. Mark your calendar andmake this a regular destination!More information available byphone: 727-942-5605 and on-line at: www.tarponarts.org.

n sePTember 9-10CARDIFF-BY-THE-SEA, CA –The 39th Annual Cardiff GreekFestival takes place at SaintsConstantine and Helen Church,3459 Manchester Avenue inCardiff-By-The-Sea. DeliciousGreek food, heavenly pastries,award-winning Greek folkdance performances, churchtours, musical performances,cooking demonstrations, wineand beer presentation, kidsgames, market/deli, and more!Dance to live Greek music. FreeParking. Fun for the whole fam-ily! Hours: Saturday, Sept. 9, 10AM-10 PM, and Sunday, Sept.10, 11 AM- 9 PM. More infor-mation available by phone: 760-942-0920 and online at:www.cardiffgreekfestival.com.

n sePTember 16PEACHTREE, GA – St. Christo-pher Hellenic OrthodoxChurch’s Peachtree City GreekFest takes place on Saturday,Sept. 16 at the Dixie Wing Com-memorative Air Force Hangar,

1200 Echo Ct in Peachtree City6-11 PM. Enjoy all the aromas,sounds, tastes, and traditions ofGreece just a few miles awayfrom home. Your admissionticket is your passport to liveGreek music, Greek dancing, de-licious Greek delicacies andhomemade pastries. Bring afriend and purchase your ticketstoday! More information isavailable online at:peachtreecitygreekfest.org andby phone: 770-347-7729.

n sePTember 17- december 4TARPON SPRINGS, FL – Work-shops in Greek Bouzouki withLeonidas Zafiris and Elias Poulostake place on Sundays, 2-4 PM,Sept. 17; Oct. 1, 15, 22, 29; Nov.12, 19; and Dec. 4 at SaffordHouse, 23 Parkin Ct., in TarponSprings. Fee: $5 donation perclass requested. The City of Tar-pon Springs’ Center for GulfCoast Folklife is pleased to pre-sent a series of workshops inGreek bouzouki for youth andadults by Leonidas Zafiris andElias Poulos. Originally fromGreece, Leonidas Zafiris is anoutstanding professionalbouzouki musician and teacher.Prior to working in Toronto formany years, Zafiris playedbouzouki for many of the top vo-calists in Greece for over 25years. Born in Argos, Greece,Elias Poulos is known as a finesinger, but he is also an accom-plished bouzouki musician. Hisrepertoire includes the latest hitsfrom Greece as well as well-known dimotika, rembetika, ni-siotika, and songs from through-out Greece. Both Zafiris andPoulos currently perform in theband Ellada. Classes will be di-vided into beginning (2-3 PM)and advanced (3-4 PM) sections.Students should bring an instru-ment, and there will be a fewbouzoukis available on site forbeginning students. In addition,a limited number of bouzoukisare available through a BouzoukiLending Program at the TarponSprings Public Library, 138 E.Lemon Street, 727-943-4922.For more information, contactTina Bucuvalas at 727-937-1130or [email protected]. Classesare funded by Superior Schoolsand the National Endowment forthe Arts.

n sePTember 20MANHATTAN – EMBCA (TheEast Mediterranean BusinessCultural Alliance) presents the2nd Annual Archiving the Hel-lenic American Experience atthe 3 West Club, 3 West 51stStreet in Midtown Manhattan,at 6 PM on Wednesday, Sept.20. The lively panel discussionwill feature experts in the field.More information is availableonline at embca.com.

n sePTember 23MANHATTAN – Marinella andAntonis Remos in concert at theManhattan Center HammersteinBallroom, 311 West 34th Streetin Midtown Manhattan, on Sat-urday, Sept. 23 at 9 PM. Ticketsavailable online at ticketmas-ter.com.

n noTe To our readersThis calendar of events sectionis a complimentary service tothe Greek American community.All parishes, organizations andinstitutions are encouraged toe-mail their information regard-ing the event 3-4 weeks aheadof time, and no later than Mon-day of the week before theevent, to [email protected]

GOINGS ON...

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NEW YORK – On August 16, acommittee of AHEPA leadersgathered at the Executive Of-fices of the Istros Media Corp.in New York City to plan thisyear’s OHI Day Celebration inAHEPA Region 3, which in-cludes New York, New Jersey,and Delaware.

The committee is in theearly planning stages of creat-ing a media campaign designedto appeal to all Hellenes andPhilhellenes to participate in acelebration commemoratingthe 77th Anniversary of OHIDay on October 28. OHI day,made an incredible impact inthe early stages of World Warll and inspired and liftedGreece and all freedom-lovingpeoples worldwide to stand upfor freedom by saying “No" tofascist tyranny.

In attendance at the meetingwere past New Jersey DistrictGovernor, Asteris Fanikos;Istros Media Corp. CEO, EffieSamios; District 6 MembershipChairman James Zafiros; Re-gional Supreme Governor, Tom

Dushas; New York District Gov-ernor, Ted Stamas and New Jer-sey District Governor, ZenonChristodoulou. Lou Katsos, amember of the committee and

Director of Hellenism for Dis-trict 6 was in Athens gatheringOHI Day information and wasunable to attend the meeting.

In the weeks ahead, the OHI

Day AHEPA team along withthe Istros Media Corp. will beannouncing their marketingplans to the entire AHEPA Fam-ily.

AHEPA Committee Plans OHI Day Celebration

Seated, left to right) AHEPA leaders Asteris Fanikos and Effie Samios, (standing) James Zafiros,Tom Dushas, Ted Stamas, and Zenon Christodoulou.

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trative and financial affairs andsupervised the building of thenew St. Nicholas Shrine at theWorld Trade Center, has alreadybeen dismissed. TNH, in fact,had recently revealed that Arch-bishop Demetrios announced tothe Holy Eparchial Synod inConstantinople on August 29 ofDimitriou’s pending dismissaland the looming deficit. Dim-itriou did not respond to TNH’srequest for comment.

Also terminated on Septem-ber 5 was Elefterios Pisalidis,who served as production man-ager, editor, and in charge of ad-vertisement at the Observer.

The terminations were an-nounced by Archdiocesan Chan-cellor, His Grace Bishop Ando-nios of Phasiane, who called theemployees into his office to tellthem “I have to let you go be-cause of financial reasons.”Demetrios was nowhere to befound.

Bishop Andonios instructedthe heads of the various depart-ments to drastically reduce theirbudgets, terminate personnel,and reduce expenses to the min-imum. The technical (website,etc.) department was one of thefirst to receive that directive.Andonios did not respond toTNH’s request for comment.

The Archdiocese’s annual$30 million budget is expectedto be reduced to $22 million. Ithas more than doubled duringDemetrios’ tenure (it had been$13 million when he becamearchbishop).

Department heads’ Archdio-cese-issued cell phones andcredit cards were taken awayfrom them because there wasno substantial quality control re-garding their use.

TNH has learned that in re-cent years the Archdiocese facedfinancial difficulties to the pointthat it was unable to meet itspayroll, which was coveredsilently by the late philan-thropists Michael Jaharis andNicholas Bouras.

The Theological School’s an-nual operating expenses areabout $12 million, and the com-bined bodies of the School aswell as Holy Cross Hellenic Col-lege is approximately 180.

TNH has reported on numer-ous occasions that the School isoversubscribed in terms of em-ployees, and over $2.5 millionto date has been spent on thecontinuing legal battle with the

Maliotis Cultural Center.The Archdiocese’s dire finan-

cial situation is expected to haverepercussions on the Metropo-lises as well because each one

is like a “mini-archdiocese” withchancellors, secretaries, dea-cons, registrars, youth directors,and other employees.

Many parishes are faced with

financial problems, as well. Con-gregations in large communitieshave sharply decreased in manycases, with some at the point ofadvanced decay.

Bankrupt Archdiocese Layoffs, Budget Cuts

inence Archbishop DemetriosGeron of America was asked bythe Ecumenical Patriarchate toresign, is false and baseless.

“His Eminence is returningto the United States from Con-stantinople to continue to workdynamically and creatively forthe edification and progress inChrist of the Holy Church inAmerica, a sacred mission towhich he was elected by themost venerable Ecumenical Pa-triarchate 18 years ago.”

TNH responded as follows:“The National Herald stands

by the accuracy of its article andits sources are beyond anydoubt, and for the time being itpoints out the following:

1) We wonders why it tookthem three days to issue thepress release.

2) We notes with interestthat the press release issueddoes not quote His Eminence di-rectly; an important point, so asto give him flexibility later onregarding his actions.

3) We note the silence fromthe Ecumenical Patriarchate, sofar.”

According to exclusive infor-mation obtained by TNH, thePatriarchate proposed thatDemetrios resign voluntarily be-cause it does not want to showthat it dethrones Archbishops aswas the case of ArchbishopSpyridon.

The proposal for Demetriosto be elected Metropolitan ofHerakleia is because it is con-sidered a prominent Eparchy ofthe Patriarchate that was de-stroyed during the catastropheof Asia Minor and is left withoutany flock. His election therewould be considered an ecclesi-astical promotion.

Regarding the issue of theelection of a Metropolitan to theChicago Metropolis, Demetriospresented to His All Holiness Ec-umenical PatriarchBartholomew and the HolySynod of the Patriarchate an ex-

tensive report outlining theprocess of selecting the triproso-pon (three-person ballot).

The archbishop read the re-port to the members of the HolyEparchial Synod on August 29,the evening before the meetingwith the patriarch and the Pa-triarchal Synod was scheduledto take place, because the Arch-bishop wanted to show that thereport reflects consensus amongthe Eparchial Synod.

At the conclusion of the re-port, Demetrios proposed thatthe election for the Chicago Me-tropolis proceed according tothe selected triprosopon, inwhich Bishop Sebastian of Zela

had gathered the majority of thevotes of the Eparchial Synod,but which the Ecumenical Patri-archate had discarded.

Despite the disagreementthat was raised by members ofthe Eparchial Synod, urging thearchbishop to draw out thatproposal, and the promise givenby the archbishop to do so, hedid not do so but instead at-tempted to pass it through thePatriarchal Synod without suc-cess. The Patriarchate told thearchbishop that the triprosoponhas been rejected and in thenew one that will be selectednot to include the name ofBishop Sebastian.

Archdiocese Denies TNH Report

His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios of America kissing thehand of His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew attheir recent meeting in Contantinople.

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on vacation and from there at-tended meetings at the Ecu-menical Patriarchate in Constan-tinople with the ProvincialSynod of America and His All-Holiness Patriarch Bartholomew.

The National Herald re-ported that Methodios was in-formed that at the arrivals gatethere were people waiting toprotest and he chose to use an-other exit. The group of parish-ioners waited until 9 PM at theairport.

Kostas Kritikos, a young,longtime parishioner and ardentsupporter of Kastanas, posted aphoto and the following com-ment on Facebook: “WelcomeMetropolitan Methodios. Today,the back door saved you again.Hiding and slipping away fromus does not solve anything. Weare not leaving and we will con-tinue until we receive answers.We’ll see you soon.”

At press time, neither Metho-dios nor Kastanas commentedto TNH.

Parishioners Protest at Boston Airport for Fr. KastanasContinued from page 1

Parishioners from St. Athanasius Church in Arlington, MA hold signs supporting Fr. NicholasKastanas and protesting Metropolitan Methodios.

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Walt built his first jet poweredcar as well as the parachute sys-tem needed to stop it andshowed it in public on August6, 1960; on October 2, 1964, atthe Bonneville Salt Flats of Utahhis Wingfoot Express reached413.2 mph, establishing a newland speed record. Walt held themark for three days, losing it toArt who thereafter traded itback-and-forth with CraigBreedlove. In 1965 he builtWingfoot Express 2 whichachieved 605 mph but did notqualify for the record; he con-tinued his car building and mod-ifying until his retirement in thelate 1970s.”

Arthur Arfons' (1926-2007)first land speed record was in1960 when he raced his"Anteater," a car... “powered byan Allison V-1710 aurcraft en-gine. In 1961 he reached a topspeed of 313.78 mph (504.98km/h)...In 1962, Arfons beganexperimenting with jet-poweredcars...Art's first car, the 8,000 hp(6 MW) Cyclops, remains thefastest open cockpit vehicle,recording 330.113 miles perhour (531.265 km/h) in themeasured mile in 1962. Unfor-tunately, his design had the dri-ver sitting directly in the air in-take to the engine, so that therewas no way to enclose the cock-pit and still supply air to the en-gine; this limited top speed se-verely. In deference to the car'sless-than-excellent aerodynam-ics, Arfons introduced anotherinnovation: It was the first land

speed record car to utilize awing to produce downforce toprevent the car from becomingairborne.

Arfons returned to Bon-neville in 1964 (with anotherjet-car creation called) theGreen Monster. He held theworld land speed record threetimes during the closely foughtcompetition of 1964 and 1965,but after a bad crash in 1966turned his attention to jet tur-bine powered tractor pullingcompetition where he was, asusual, successful. In 1979 hewon his only NTPA (NationalTractor Pullers Association)championship in the 9200 Mod-ified class. In 1989, however, heattempted to return to landspeed record competition, but

was never competitive.”A second generation of

Afrons have also taken to theraceways. Walt's son, Jon CraigArfons (1949-1989), a recog-nized motor sports figure in hisown rights, was killed while at-tempting to set the water speedrecord. Two of Art's children,Tim competes in drag racing jet-powered cars and his daughterAllison “Dusty” Afrons competesin tractor pulls.

All of this has not escapedgeneral notice. In 2015, OhioHistorical Marker (#47-77) wasunveiled with the following in-scription: “In 1951, several pio-neer drag racers opened one ofthe Midwest's first drag stripsknown by local racing enthusi-asts as the “Fulton AirportChampions Raceways.” For thenext eight years half-brothersArt and Walt Afrons, Otis “Otie”Smith, and “Akron Arlen” Vankeraced here. Both Afrons, whowere long time bitter rivals, atone point held the world landspeed record. Otie, the first pres-ident of the Cam Jammers carclub in Akron, won the NationalHot Rod Association's 1959championship. Vanke won manynational championships as aStock, Super Stock, and ProStock racer.”

In my last dozen or so arti-cles, here in the pages of theNational Herald, I have writtenabout a wide array of Greek-Americans who have been hon-ored by a variety of public mon-uments. Among those accountsI also included public monu-ments not only dedicated to the

memory and accomplishmentsof assorted Greek-Americans,public monuments sponsoredby a Greek-American and onestate monument designed by aGreek-American artist. And Iam not the only Greek-Ameri-can journalist writing about thistheme of monuments. We seemto be living in a golden age ofGreek immigrant monumentbuilding limited not just to theUnited States but also seen inCanada and Australia. Unex-pectedly, this age of Greek mon-ument building has never beenlimited to just the efforts ofGreeks but involves recognitionby the wider societies in whichGreeks live. What is/has beenhappening? A host of questionimmediately present them-selves.

First, I can find no referenceto an expression of Greek self-

identity from any of the ex-tended Afron family.

All that can be gleamed fromthe available public record isthat the family founder in theUnited States, Thomas (Tom)Afrons was born in Greece onMay 1, 1898 and it is said hearrived in the United Stateswhen he was 14 years old. Wedo know that Afrons was withthe American ExpeditionaryForces serving as a cook withthe 347th Infantry, 87th Divi-sion. Later Afrons marriedBessie Comley Stroud (1899-1983) and settled in Akron, OH,where he owned a feed mill andhardware store on Pickle Road.Little else is publicly availableon Afrons, other than that hedied in 1952. And without anypublic statements or other firstperson testimony as to this ex-tended families sense of identity

it is impossible to tell, at thistime, if they see themselves asGreek.

Nevertheless this considera-tion of the Afrons clan goes backto an old debate about theproper focus of Greek-Americanstudies. Are we dealing withAmerican immigration history,Greek Diaspora history or some-thing else entirely? Since the1950s, various writers have ar-gued that the point of view ofnon-Greeks among whom thediaspora Greeks live be takeninto consideration. This Ameri-can viewpoint is not what theone seen in immigration ac-counts. That literature is strictlythe concern of academics andas such is a tightly framed genrewith its own rules.

Whether one considers them-selves Greeks living in Americaor as Greek-Americans there isno question that we are all liv-ing at a time when the very ex-istence of public monuments inthe United States is under vio-lent open review. Monumentsdedicated to Confederate sol-diers and statesmen are beingremoved from public squares(Atlantic June 28, 2017; Wash-ington Post August 17, 2017;CNN August 25, 2017). Longsimmering opposition to otherpublic monuments such as stat-ues commemorating Christo-pher Columbus are not simplyup for review but are beingphysically attacked with sledgehammers. These most recent at-tacks against Columbus statueshave brought long ignored orsuppressed accounts of priorpublic protests and attacksagainst public statues of theGreat Navigator.

These attacks on public mon-uments are not just reevalua-tions of individual statues butof the officially sanctioned his-tory these collections of metaland stone are meant to physi-cally represent to the world atlarge. How Americans and oth-ers now see the Greeks who liveamong them see physical ex-pression in each one of thesemonuments. And as recentevents have shown when thepublic's notions of historychange so will the monumentsthey raise to commemorate theircollective past.

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The Arfons Clan: First Family of the Jet-Powered Motor Sport RacersHISTORICAL COMMENTARY


By Penelope Karageorge

The Hellenic-AmericanChamber of Commerce (HACC)will honor its Person of the Year,Polys Hadjioannou, on October20 at a special shipping themegala at the Pierre Hotel in NewYork City.

HACC Executive DirectorAspa Bitis says that “the annualdinner dance gives us a platformto showcase our program. It isour major fundraising event, themost prestigious event of theyear, and brings together about400 guests to honor our Personof the Year. We are so happy thatthat Mr. Hadjioannou will be

coming from Limassol, Cyprusto give the keynote address.”

Estimated by Forbes to havea net worth of $1.31 billion,Hadjioannou, CEO of Safe Bulk-ers, belongs to a dynamic familyof entrepreneurs. His brother,Stelios Haji-Ioannou, foundedeasyJet, the innovative airline.His father, Loucas Haji-Ioannou,is known as the “King ofTankers.”

Sculptor Petros Marmarinosof Tinos Island has created awhite marble commemorative“paper boat” for the occasion.Says Marmarinos: “I believe thatthe boat is the international sym-bol of communication, and isalso one of the things we get intouch with as children. It is thefirst genuine art that someonecreates without knowing it. It issymbolic of Greece’s shipping in-dustry as well as blue sky andwater.”

Women attending the galawill be treated to a specially-de-signed bracelet created byThemis Bompolas and AthinaAxioti, a husband and wife team,

the talent behind Apriati hand-crafted jewelry.

Entertainment will include aperformance by Greek com-poser/performer Pericles Ka-naris, an international artist thatthe NY Times recognized as “amusician with a Greek identityand global sounds.”

HACC is one of the oldestGreek-American organizations.It was founded in 1947 by Kyri-

acos P. Tsolainos when the ob-jective was to promote Greekshipping interests. Early mem-bers included Manuel E. Ku-lukundis, Nicholas Goulandris,George Livanos, and MichaelEmbiricos. In the 1950s, most ofthe big shipping companiesmoved to London or Greece. TheChamber then changed directionto foster and strengthen eco-nomic and cultural ties betweenGreece and the United States.

Bitis noted that while honor-ing HACC’s historic roots, the or-ganization wants to continue in-novating with emphasis onencouraging business interests.

“The Chamber has so muchpotential to bring the Greek-American community together.There are so many Greek-Amer-ican organizations in New York,and we hope to have the Cham-ber help them to communicate,network, and support eachother. For starters, we would liketo create a calendar so that var-ious organizations would notoverlap on their event planning.It is really unfortunate to receivethree invitations for an event onthe same day.

“We want to increase mem-bership and organize events topromote services and productsin an intimate, relaxed setting,so that members will feel thereis a platform for everyone to dobusiness together.

“We plan an open directoryof members, and many morebusiness-oriented events, partic-ularly events related to hospital-ity, fashion – people are unawareof how many Greek-Americanfashion leaders there are –restaurants, hotels and the foodindustry. Currently we havecommittees in real estate, de-sign, and construction. I wouldlike to add a women’s commit-tee.

Before joining HACC, Bitisspent ten years at the Onassis

Foundation. “It was a period ofconstant growth. I am excitedby the challenges and possibili-ties for growth here.”

One of HACC’s notable suc-cesses has been the New YorkCity Greek Film Festival. “Lastyear the festival celebrated its10th anniversary with an open-ing night at the MetropolitanMuseum of Art, and sold-outperformances,” Bitis said. “ Weexpect this year’s festival, open-ing September 28 at the Direc-tor’s Guild, to be equally suc-

cessful. The festival would notbe possible without the generos-ity and commitment of membersof our community including theremarkable Jimmy [James]Demetro, Festival Director.”

George Constantin andNancy Papaioannou are co-Chairs of the Gala. Committeemembers include: MarcosDrakotos, Angela Giannopoulos,Hara Gisholt, and Kalli Livanos.Vasilios Philippou, Cyprus Con-sul General, is Honorary Chair-man of the event.

Hellenic Chamber’s Gala to Honor Shipping Magnate Polys Hadjioannou

Polys Hadjioannou, CEO of Safe Bulkers Inc. is the HellenicAmerican Chamber of Commerce Man of the Year.

The Green Monster jet-pow-ered car that set a land speedrecord driven by Greek-Amer-ican Art Arfons.

The historical marker in Akron that mentions the Afrons.

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NEW YORK – September 11,2017 marks the 16th anniver-sary of the horrific attacks onthe World Trade Center thattook the lives of innocent vic-tims and destroyed buildings,including St. Nicholas Greek Or-thodox Church, the only houseof worship completely leveledin the attack.

In time for the grim anniver-sary, the Port Authority on Au-gust 21 signed the formal leaseand purchase agreement for theSaint Nicholas National ShrineChurch at the World Trade Cen-ter. Rick Cotton, the new exec-utive director of the Port Au-thority signed the deal only afew days after starting his newjob. The deal is for a 198-yearlease through July 31, 2215 andincludes a 99-year extension aswell as an option to purchasethe land from the Port Authority,the New York Post reported. Therent is $1 a year for the church.

Jerry Dimitriou, ExecutiveDirector of the Greek OrthodoxArchdiocese of America said, asreported in the Post, “most im-portantly, the church also hasan option to purchase the siteat any time during the term ofthe lease for a nominal [i.e., $1]purchase price. The current planis to exercise the option to pur-chase soon after the completionof construction and after thechurch officially opens itsdoors.”

Construction continues at thechurch located at 130 LibertyStreet, the former location ofthe Deutsche Bank, which stoodfrom 1974-2007 but was closedafter 9/11 due to contaminationfrom the collapse of the SouthTower.

St. Nicholas Church wasfounded in 1916 and was lo-cated at 155 Cedar Street. The1,200-square-foot church wasdestroyed on 9/11 and plans torebuild the structure were de-layed by the rebuilding effortsand plans for the new WorldTrade Center.

In 2009, talks between thePort Authority and the churchfell apart leading to legal actionin 2011. An agreement wasmade in order for constructionto begin without a formal lease.On October 18, 2014, a groundblessing was performed by HisEminence ArchbishopDemetrios.

The new St. Nicholas Church

was designed by Santiago Cala-trava. As noted on the St.Nicholas website, Calatrava de-veloped his plan from a wealthof Byzantine precedents, includ-ing the famous Church in Choraand Hagia Sophia itself for thedesign of the domed church.The topping out of the churchtook place in November 2016.The opening is planned for No-vember, 2018 to coincide withthe church’s 102nd anniversary.

Archbishop Demetrios said,as noted on the church website,“This church will not be just anational shrine, but also an in-ternational shrine. It will showthe will of all people to rebuildand resurrect from the ashes of9/11. This will be a church forall to light a candle for thebeloved that were lost on Sep-tember 11th. This church will bea Greek Orthodox NationalShrine on Hallowed, SacredGround.”

Among the casualties on Sep-tember 11th were 36 Greek-Americans. One of them was anemployee on one of the air-planes that terrorists crashedinto the Twin Towers. The othersworked in the buildings them-selves. The number of victims ismuch higher than the 3,000 ifwe estimate the people who in-

directly lost their lives as a resultof illness (carcinogenic diseasesin first responders) and fallenheroes of wars that followed.

Also, the number of Greek-Americans may be greater, be-cause it is very likely that therewere other Greeks who died thatday without easily-discernible“Greek-sounding” names.

One Greek-American victimwas Basil Haramis from StatenIsland. He was born and raisedin a poor family in Neapolis inGreece. At 18, he came to theUnited States to study and topursue a better life. After earn-ing a degree in electrical engi-neering from Columbia Univer-sity, he worked for theWashington Group Internationalat the World Trade Center.

President of the Parish Coun-cil at the Church of Holy Trinityin Staten Island GretchenTheodorakis told The NationalHerald that “Basil was very kindman with great humor. He caredfor everyone and loved his fam-ily dearly. He was one of the bestpeople I have ever met in mylife.”

Those who knew Haramis de-scribe him as a man with manyhobbies: he loved football, gar-dening and above all Greece,which he visited almost every

year to see family and friends.He was a great family man anda good Christian who always of-fered his help to the communityof Holy Trinity.

The street in front of thechurch has been renamed BasilHaramis Way in his honor.

A tragic irony is that duringthe first terrorist attack on theTwin Towers in 1993, Haramiswas on Tower 2’s rooftop with acolleague in her seventh monthof pregnancy at the time. He re-mained with her until help ar-rived and when she was rescuedby helicopter, he went down 110floors on foot. It took him threehours to get down but he wasexhausted and happy that hestayed to help his pregnant col-league. He never turned his backon those in need.

Another victim of the terroristattack was ConstantineEconomos, a prominent memberof the community of Holy Crossin Brooklyn and a member ofthe Church Committee. Thestreet in front of the church hasbeen named Economou Way inhis honor. He was a partner inthe firm Sandler O’Neill & Part-ners and on that tragic day, hewas working on the 104th floorof Tower 2.

His daughter Katerina told

TNH, on behalf of his family:“Our family lost a true renais-sance man. As he worked a rig-orous job in finance, he alwaysfound time for his family andcommunity. Gus took his wifeand children on trips, coachedhis children in sports and spentthe most memorable times ofour lives upstate with his family,parents, sister, brother, father-in-law and mother-in-law, broth-ers-in-law and sisters-in-law,cousins, aunts and uncles,nieces, and nephews. He alsotook time out of his busy sched-ule to be a part of the Holy CrossParish Council, where he servedas president, and ran the annualGreek Festival. He was alwaysthere for anyone who neededhelp. He showed us all how towork hard and love hard andthat lesson will never leave ourhearts. Although Gus is nolonger here physically, his familycarries his love with them everyday of their lives.”

Also among the victims:Michael Tarra was a member ofthe crew of United Airlines.

Three victims were born inGreece: Katerina Bandis, BasilHarmais, and Procopios Zois.

According to the New YorkCity Coroner’s office the list ofGreek-American victims were:

Joanna Achladioti 27, Ernest Al-ifakos 43, Arlene Bampakidis 47Katerina Bands 48, Peter Bren-nan 30, Thomas Damascus 33,Antonios Dimas 61, Konstanti-nos Economos 41, MichaelElferis 27, Anna Fosteris 58,Dimitrios Gkrekiotis 56, KennethGrouzalis 56, Basil Harmais 56,Nicholas John 42, John Katsi-matides 31, Daniela Kousoulis29, Thomas Kouveikis, 48 Dim-itris Maun 42, Philip Mastran-dreas, 42 Georgios Merkouris35, Stylianos Mousouroulis 38,Peter Mouton 44, Nikolaos Pa-padopoulos 29, James Pappa-george 29, Georgios Paorce 60,Theodoros Pigis, Daphne Poulet-sos 47, Richard Poulos 55, Ste-fanos Poulos 45, Antonios Sav-vas 72, Muriel Fay Siskopoulos60, Timothy Soulas 35, AndreasStergiopoulos 23, MichaelTheodoridis 32, William Tselepis33, Jennifer Tzemis 26, and Pro-copios Zois 46.

The address at 98th Streetbetween 38th Ave and RooseveltAve in Queens has been re-named James Pappageorge Wayin memory of firefighter JamesPappageorge. He had realizedhis dream of becoming a fire-fighter for only six weeks whenhis life was cut short on Sep-tember 11.

By Demetris Tsakas

LONG ISLAND CITY – Perma-nent Representative of Greeceto the United Nations Amb.Catherine Boura visited theheadquarters of The NationalHerald in Long Island City onSeptember 5, where she waswelcomed and interviewed bythe Publisher-Editor Antonis H.Diamataris.

Amb. Boura took office in2014 and is now returning tothe Foreign Ministry's central of-fice. She took the time to visitTNH to express gratitude for thenewspaper’s work, its 102 years,as well as the support for herown work in New York, both asConsul General and as Perma-nent Representative of Greeceto the United Nations.

She left New York ten yearsago having visited TNH then,but the present visit was differ-ent and very moving. Bourathanked Diamataris for the sup-port during the last three yearsas the Permanent Representa-tive and in the efforts made bythe Delegation to defend the in-terests of the homeland and topromote and resolve our na-tional issues.

She expressed her admira-tion for the achievements of theGreeks of Greece, of the Dias-pora, and of the Herald. Shegave Diamataris a miniature

trireme and wished his leader-ship of TNH to continue withinsight through serene oceansand seas.

Boura served in New York inthe past decade as Consul Gen-eral of Greece and for the past

three years as Permanent Rep-resentative of Greece to theUnited Nations with wisdom, in-sight, diligence, respect, andlove for the Greek community,she has won their respect andtheir hearts.

St. Nicholas WTC Agreement Signed in Time for 16th Anniversary of 9/11

Above: Construction continues at the St. Nicholas National Shrine Church at the World TradeCenter. Top right: The Freedom Tower stands tall above the church. Right: One of the two re-flecting pools at the National September 11 Memorial inscribed with the names of the victimsof the 2001 and 1993 attacks, we will never forget.

Farewell Visit by Amb. Boura to TNH

TNH Publisher-Editor Antonis H. Diamataris and PermanentRepresentative of Greece to the UN Amb. Catherine Boura.

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the myth of Sisyphus, doomedfor eternity to push a boulderup a hill, only to have it rollback on him every time, an un-winnable task.

But she’s got the GOP andConservative fields to herselfand has become a bit of a fire-brand unafraid to go after theincumbent as someone she hasbranded as presiding over ashaky city with a crumblingtransit system, a falling qualityof life and with, she said, illegalimmigrants running amok andcommitting serious crimes whileultra-liberal De Blasio makes ex-cuses.

“She has guts,” the Times ed-itorial said of her, even if shehas to put some distance be-tween the policies of Trump, forwhom she voted, and her own

vision of what New York Cityshould be, and it doesn’t lookanything like De Blasio’s, whosecritics have painted even darkerimages right of out Blade Run-ner, including the remake.

“Whether her message canresonate across the heavily De-mocratic city is a question. Butwe’re pleased that she is pre-pared to give her Democratic op-ponent a lively challenge,” theTimes said, wondering if she canraise enough money (where arethe rich Greek-Americans?) toqualify for city matching fundsand take on De Blasio’s machine:if he’s the nominee again whichseems like a shoo-in bet.

“Should she fall short, we’dencourage the Mayor to debateher anyway. The city would bethe better for it,” the Times said,something those in her districthave long known.

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By Eleni Sakellis

Chicories are some of themost flavorful greens which canbe eaten raw in salads or cookedlightly and served in the classicGreek way drizzled with Greekextra virgin olive oil and freshlysqueezed lemon. In the North-east United States, they areavailable in September and Oc-tober for those interested in eat-ing seasonally. Among the vari-eties are common chicory,Belgian endive, curly endive,also known as frisee, escarole,and radicchio. Closely related tolettuces, chicories have a nicebitterness to them that spices up

your average salad and every-day meals. Make sure to washthem thoroughly since the curlyvarieties and escarole can trapgrit and no one likes gritty sal-ads or greens.

Common chicory is native tothe Mediterranean region andis one of the earliest cultivatedplants. The ancient Roman poetHorace cited the greens as oneof the main foods in his diet inhis Odes from circa 30 BC, mak-ing chicory one of the earliestplants recorded in literature.Chicory leaves in Greek cuisineare often boiled and served ashorta. The boiling removessome of the bitterness of thechicory leaves. Raw chicoryleaves have a tremendousamount of vitamin K, whichhelps with blood-clotting andprevents excessive bleeding.Chicory leaves are also a verygood source of dietary fiber, vi-tamin A, C, E (alpha toco-pherol), riboflavin, vitamin B6,folate, pantothenic acid, cal-cium, potassium, and man-ganese, among other nutrients.

A typical folk remedy, chicoryhas been used for everyday ail-ments such as gastroenteritis, si-nus problems, and even cutsand bruises. Because of its inulincontent, chicory may also helpwith weight loss, improvingbowel function, and overallhealth. It is also known for itstoxicity to internal parasites andin New Zealand where the ratioof sheep to people is 30 to 1, itis often added to animal feed tokeep the sheep healthy.

Radicchio is sometimescalled Italian chicory andthough known from ancienttimes. the Italians cultivated it

over time to produce the vari-eties found in today’s supermar-kets. It can be eaten raw in sal-ads, grilled, roasted, andsautéed.

Boiled Chicory Leaves(Horta)

• 1 bunch chicory leaves• Water• Greek sea salt• Greek extra virgin olive oil• Lemon

Rinse the chicory leaves andset aside. Bring a pot of waterto a boil over medium high heat.

Add a teaspoon of salt and thechicory leaves. Reduce heat toa simmer and cook until thechicory leaves are cooked to de-sired tenderness. Remove fromheat and transfer the cookedhorta to a serving bowl, drizzlewith olive oil and freshlysqueezed lemon to taste.

Grilled Radicchio Salad• 2 heads radicchio, Treviso

variety about 1 pound• 2-4 tablespoons Greek extra

virgin olive oil• Greek sea salt• 2-4 tablespoons balsamic

vinegar• 1/4 cup crumbled feta,

optional

Heat the grill to medium highheat. While the grill is heatingup, wash and trim the radicchioof browned edges on the stem.Pat dry. Cut the radicchio in halflengthwise and brush all overwith the olive oil. Cook on thegrill, cut side down for about 4minutes or until the edges arenicely browned. Using barbecuetongs, turn the cooked radicchioover and sprinkle the grilled cutside with some salt. Continuecooking until the radicchio iswilted and browned nicely,about 4 minutes more on thegrill. Transfer the cooked radic-chio halves to a platter or cuttingboard and chop into bite sizedpieces for the salad. Transfer thecut radicchio to a salad bowl anddrizzle with the balsamic vinegarand additional olive oil and salt,if preferred. Top with crumbledfeta, if using, and serve warm orat room temperature.

Chicories, a Favorite Type ofHorta since Antiquity

GREEK GASTRONOMYOUR EVERYDAY GREEK

By Dr. Dimitra Pontoporou

School begins and a common question is which school do youor your kids attend. This is how you may response in Greek.

WHICH SCHOOL DO YOUR KIDS ATTEND?Greek phrase Pronunciation TranslationΚυρία Ελένη, keREEA eLEni, Mrs. Eleni σε ποιο σχολείο SE piO shoLEEo which schoolπηγαίνουν τα παιδιά σας; piYEnoon ta pediA SAS? do your kidsattend?-Η κόρη μου πηγαίνει EE KOri moo piYEni My daughter goesστο Λύκειο sto LEEkio to St. Demetrios High School.του Αγίου Δημητρίου. TOO aGEEoo dimiTREEoo.-Ο γιος μου πηγαίνει O yiOS moo piYEni My son goes στο Γυμνάσιο STO yiMNAsio to St. Demetrios Mid-dle School. του Αγίου Δημητρίου. TOO aGEEoo dimiTREEoo.-Tα παιδιά μας πηγαίνουν TA pediA mas piYEnoon Our kids go στο σχολείο STO shoLEEo to St. Demetrios School.του Αγίου Δημητρίου. TOO aGEEoo dimiTREEoo.

WHICH SCHOOL DO YOU ATTEND?Greek phrase Pronunciation TranslationΠαιδιά, σε ποιο σχολείο pediA, SE piO shoLEEo Kids, whichschool πηγαίνετε; piYEnete? do you attend?-Εγώ πηγαίνω eYO piYEno I go στο Λύκειο STO LEEkio to St.Demetrios High School. του Αγίου Δημητρίου. TOO aGEEoo dimiTREEoo.Είμαι μαθητής. EEme mathiTEEs. I am student (pupil).-Εγώ πηγαίνω eYO piYEno I goστο Δημοτικό STO dimotiKO to Agia Ekaterini Primary School.της Αγίας Αικατερίνης. TEES aYEEas ekateREEnis.Είμαι μαθήτρια. EEme maTHEEtria. I am a student(pupil).-Είναι πρωινό EEne proiNO Is it a morningή απογευματινό EE apoyeumatiNO or afternoonσχολείο; shoLEEo? school?-Eίναι πρωινό σχολείο.EEne proiNO shoLEEo. It is a morningschool.-Εγώ πηγαίνω eYO piGEno I goσε σαββατιανό σχολείο. SE savatiaNO shoLEEo. to a Saturdayschool.-Εγώ πηγαίνω eYO piYEno I goστο Πανεπιστήμιο STO panepiSTEEmio to Columbia University.Κολούμπια. koLOOmbiaΕίμαι φοιτητής. EEme fitiTEEs. I am a student.-Εγώ πηγαίνω eYO piYEnoI goστο Πανεπιστήμιο STO panepiSTEEmio to New York University.της Νέας Υόρκης. TEES NEas iOrkis.Είμαι φοιτήτρια. EEme fiTEEtria. I am a student.

BASIC VOCABULARYGreek word Pronunciation MeaningΚυρία kiREEA MrsΣε SE to, atΠοιο piO which Το σχολείο TO shoLEEo schoolΤα παιδιά TA pediAkids, childrenΣας SAS your Η κόρη EE KOri daughterΟ γιός O yiOS son Μας MΑS ourΤο Δημοτικό TO dimotiKO Elementary SchoolΤο Γυμνάσιο TO YiMNAsio Middle SchoolΤο Λύκειο TO LEEkio High SchoolΤα παιδιά πηγαίνουν TA pediA piYEnoon the kids goΕγώ πηγαίνω eYO piYEno I goΑυτός/αυτή πηγαίνει afTOS /afTEE piYEni h e/she goesΕσείς πηγαίνετε; eSEES piYEnete do you go?Το Πανεπιστήμιο TO panepiSTEEmio UniversityΣτο STO to, atΕίμαι EEme I amΕίναι EEne Is Ο μαθητής O mathiTEES primary or secondary school student(male)Η μαθήτρια EE maTHEEtria primary or secondary schoolstudent (female)Ο φοιτητής O fitiTEES College or University student (male)Η φοιτήτρια EE fiTEEtria College or University student(female)Το πρωινό TO proiNO morningΤο απογευματινό TO apoyeumatiNO afternoon, eveningΤο σαββατιανό TO savatiaNO Saturday school

GREEK WORDS USED IN ENGLISHΤο παιδί is the root of the Greek word παιδαγωγική (=παιδί+αγωγή).In English it is familiar to you from the word ped+agogy, the chil-dren’s education.

MAIN PHRASESTry to match the phrases in English with their translation in Greek:1. Εγώ πηγαίνω σε Σαββατιανό σχολείο. 1. Our kids go to afternoonschool.2. Είμαι μαθήτρια στο Λύκειο. 2. I am a University student.3. Είμαι φοιτητής στο Πανεπιστήμιο. 3. I am a High School student.4. Τα παιδιά μας πηγαίνουν 4. I go to a Saturday school.σε απογευματινό σχολείο.

PRONUNCIATION KEYi (idiom), ee (needle), e (energy), o (organism), oo (boot), y (yes),h (helium), th (theory), d (the). The capitalized syllables are ac-cented.

This September We Speak in Greek about Our School

By Phyllis (Kiki) SembosSpecial to The National Herald

When everyone had settledin their familiar seats at Dixon’s,Kipreos told those seated that aforum was going to be held atthe hotel where he worked. “I’mso excited! A professor fromCyprus is coming to speak onphilosophers and people of wis-dom. He hoped for about fiftyor more to attend the meeting.I introduced myself to him ashe was having lunch with a fewof his colleagues. He asked mewhere I came from and ...” hepaused and looked around. “...He asked if I knew anyone in-terested in attending the forum.I couldn’t say I didn’t know any-one. So, I thought of you guys.”Dimos, nodding knowingly, said,“So, you volunteered us, right?”Timidly, Kipreos answered,“Um, yes!” He went on to ex-plain. “I told him I had friendswho are intelligent and knowl-edgeable and I believe they’d bevery interested in hearingabout...about whatever he was

going to talk about.” Johnasked, “When is this forum?And, what time?” Kipreos ex-plained it would take place atthe hotel where he worked, inthe main tea room at eight inthe evening next Saturday.”George shrugged and raised hishand. “I’ll go - if the others go.”Dimos looked toward John whogave a reluctant nod. “Okay I’llgo.” Dimos shrugged. “Well?You’ve got three attendees,Kipreos.

Yianni, who had arrived laterthan usual, noticed everyone’sattention fastened on him. Di-mos filled him in about the fo-rum. “What? Saturday? I don’tknow. I’ll have to look at myschedule and let you know.”George, sensing Yiannis’ reluc-tance as foreseeing no advan-tage towards himself, decidedto give him a mental shove. “Ad-mit it! You don’t want to go toany forum, Yiannis. What doyou know about philosophers,authors or poets? You’d, proba-bly, fall asleep and snore andembarrass us all.” Offended,

Yiannis said, “Oh, yeah? I bet Iknow more than you about guyslike...like Plato who said a lotof died. Oh, yeah! Socrates. Youthink you’re so smart? I couldtell that professor guy a smartthings and...what’s that otherguy’s name... the one who swal-lowed wedlock and few things,I’ll bet!” Dimos, having sensed

George’s strategy, asked, “Well?Does that mean you’ll go?”Looking around, observingJohn’s grin and sly expression,Yiannis suspected George’s ployin trying to maneuver him intogoing.

He told them, “I’d like to go.Sounds really interesting... but...like I said, I have to look at my

schedule. I’m a busy man.”Kipreos then informed themthat he was given a list on whatto prepare for the tea; special-ties like sandwiches and cakeswere to be served when the fo-rum had been concluded. Hisattention caught, Yiannis asked,“What time?”

The forum lasted well overan hour. The professor endedthe long session by thankingeveryone for coming. After-wards, he stepped down and ap-proached Kipreos, who hadpaused on his way towards thekitchen to speak to his friends.After brief introductions, he, po-litely, thanked them all for com-ing. “I hope you all found some-thing interesting,” he said.Striking a pose, anxious to im-press the professor and tweakGeorge’s nose, Yiannis said, “Iwas very impressed with yourknowledge, Mr. Professor. Youreminded me of my school daysin my town in Greece.” Pleased,the professor then asked, “Whattown is that?” They all watchedas he announced, proudly,

“Marousanakislaki.” The profes-sor looked puzzled. But, hemerely nodded, politely. Thenhe asked Yiannis, “Ahh, yes,school days. If you could have aconversation with someone Ispoke about, living or dead, whowould it be?” Dimos, John andGeorge held their breath, wait-ing and watching for his re-sponse. After some thought,Yiannis replied, “The livingone.” Nodding, a little confused,the professor, again, thankedthem and turned to leave.

Later, when they all had gath-ered at a table for the tea, theydiscussed the forum. Georgesnickered, mentioning Yiannis’response to the professor. “Thatwas a clever answer, Yiannis.Good thing you weren’t asked toname a philosopher. I’ll bet youcouldn’t come up with anyonethe professor spoke about.” Pil-ing his plate with sandwichesand cakes, Yiannis, grinned,looked up and said, “Noticed hedidn’t ask where Marou-sanakislaki is located. I’ll bet theprofessor didn’t know where.”

GREEK AMERICAN STORIES

Tea With Wise Men

By Eleni Sakellis

Something Beautiful Hap-pened by Yvette Manessis Cor-poron is a work of non-fictionthat tells the remarkable story ofthe author’s own family, history,and the present day search forthe Jewish family her grand-mother helped save during WorldWar II. Out of unspeakabletragedy, the horrors of the warand Occupation, the book high-lights the power of faith, hope,and kindness, as well as the needfor understanding and having thecourage to stand up for what isright. Yvette Manessis Corporon,a three-time Emmy Award–win-ning writer, author, and producer,took time out of her busy sched-ule to talk to The National Heraldabout the inspiration for thebook, her family, and her upcom-ing projects. Her debut novel,When The Cypress Whispers(Harper, 2014), has been trans-lated into fourteen languages andwas an international bestseller.She has received the SilurianAward for Excellence in Journal-ism and the New York City Coun-cil and Comptroller’s Award forGreek Heritage and Culture.

When asked about the inspi-ration for the book, YvetteManessis Corporon told TNH, “Asa journalist, I felt an obligationto write, Something BeautifulHappened. I’ve spent my entirecareer telling other people’s sto-ries. I realized that the story ofmy own family was just as in-credible, if not more so, than all

of the other stories I had heardand told through the years.”

She continued, “Our family isfrom Erikousa, which is a tiny is-land off the coast of Corfu. I grewup listening to my Yiayia’s storiesabout how difficult life was onErikousa during World War II.My Pappou had left for Americaand Yiayia was left on Erikousaduring the German occupationwith two small children. She alsotold me how she, and other is-landers, all worked together tohide and save a Jewish familyfrom the Nazis. My first novel,When The Cypress Whispers,was inspired by my Yiayia’s sto-ries. My new book, SomethingBeautiful Happened, is the realstory of what happened on Erik-ousa during the war, and howthe entire island worked together

to save their Jewish friends. It isalso the untold story of the Jew-ish Community of Corfu, who upuntil now, felt largely forgottenby history.”

“After years of searching forthe family my Yiayia helped save,I finally found them. In June of2014, we all met in Corfu andtraveled together to Erikousawhere the entire island was hon-ored for their bravery. The islandreceived the Award of MoralCourage from the Association ofFriends of Greek Jews, and theisland was also designated as aHouse of Life by the InternationalRaoul Wallenberg Foundation. Is-rael also issued a commemora-tive stamp with Erikousa on it!After the reunion and ceremony,I was approached by a friend inpublishing who said I should

write a book about the searchand experience. Things movedquickly from there. I took a yearto write the book and it will bereleased on September 12 byHoward Books (Simon andSchuster).”

When asked what is next forher, she said, “I am working anew novel, which like When TheCypress Whispers, is steeped inhistory and a little known Greekmyth. I also work very closelywith the family history website,MyHeritage.com. The brilliant re-searchers at Myheritage helpedme find the family my Yiayiahelped save. I am also a SeniorProducer with the televisionshow, Extra - as well as a wifeand mom to two incredibleteenagers and a yellow lab puppy.It’s a busy time right now! But awonderful time.”

Yvette Manessis Corporon’sdebut novel, When The CypressWhispers (Harper, 2014), hasbeen translated into fourteen lan-guages and was an internationalbestseller. She has received theSilurian Award for Excellence inJournalism and the New YorkCity Council and Comptroller’sAward for Greek Heritage andCulture. She lives in New Yorkwith her husband and two chil-dren.

Something Beautiful Hap-pened by Yvette Manessis Cor-poron is available online and inbookstores. The book trailer isavailable on YouTube:https://youtu.be/UHSV6rRw-cDA.

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n andriTsos, aThanasios EL PASO, TX (from the El Paso

Times, published on Aug. 26) –Athanasios "Thanos" G. Andritsospassed away on Thursday, August24, 2017 at the age of 85. Hewas born in Amfikleia, Greece.He came to Fort Bliss, Texasthrough his service with theGreek Air Force and met andmarried his love, Maria AsuncionGaeta. His life was emblematicof the American dream with hismany successes achieved throughindependence and perseverance.He was a strong and extraordi-nary man and loving and devotedhusband, father, grandfather, andbrother. He will be dearly missed.Thanos was preceded in deathby his brother, Demetrios Andrit-sos, and sister, Efrosini AndritsosChristou. He is survived by hisloving wife of 56 years, Maria;his children Anna, George (Jen-nifer), Michael (Leslie), Daphne(Robert Calderon); and by hisbeloved grandchildren Sophia,Zoe, Chrysanthe, Lucas, Nicholasand Eleni. Visitation will be heldon Sunday, August 27, 2017 from6:00PM to 8:00PM, with HolyRosary at 7:00PM at Sunset Fu-neral Home-West. Funeral Masswill be held on Monday, August28, 2017 at 11:00AM at Queenof Peace Catholic Church, 1551Belvidere. Interment will followat Memory Gardens of the Valleyin Santa Teresa, NM. Services en-trusted to Sunset Funeral Home-West, 480 N. Resler Dr. Pleasevisit our online registry atwww.sunsetfuneralhomes.net.

n anGelis, GeorGe charlesRENO, NV (from the Reno

Gazette-Journal, published onAug. 29) – George Charles An-gelis January 1, 1928-August 23,2017 George Charles Angelis bestknown to his friends and familyas "The Greek" passed awaypeacefully on August 23, 2017 athis home surrounded by his lov-ing family. He was born on Janu-ary 1st, 1928 in Lynn Massachu-setts to Charles and BessieAngeloupoulos who immigratedfrom Greece. George spent hisyouth in Peabody Massachusettsand then later enlisted in theUnited States Navy in 1945 as ayoung man proud to serve hiscountry. He served as a Store-

keeper Third SK3 on the islandof Guam during World War II. Hewas awarded metals for out-standing conduct. At the comple-tion of his service to his countryhe was proud fully awarded anhonorable discharge and movedto San Francisco, CA to be withhis father, brothers and sisters.In 1950, George had an oppor-tunity to play for the San Fran-cisco Seals Baseball Club. Georgespent his life enjoying time withhis family most of all. He lovedplaying golf, teaching his grand-kids to fish and spending a lot oftime in the kitchen cooking au-thentic Greek food, he was veryproud of his Greek heritage. Heand Frances were snowbirds andlooked forward to each wintertraveling to Mexico and YumaArizona to reconnect with all oftheir friends. He was a teamster,a truck driver, a cab driver and amajor tease. He often told storiesabout his colorful cab driving ex-periences. His was passionatelyinvolved in the gaming industryfor over 25 years. Having workedat various casinos in Reno, NVand in Atlantic City, NJ. He wasa proud member of the Harold'sClub Pioneers. Since 1995George could be found cookingand making daily food deliveriesfor his son at Paisan's Deli. He ispreceded in death by his fatherand mother, his step parents AliceAngelos, Joe Connors and hiswife Frances Cerfoglio Angelis.He is survived and will be missedgreatly by brothers Frank Ange-los, Chris Angelos (Doris), sistersPatricia Connors (Robert), StellaSari (Bob) and Georgia Angelos.Three sons David Bugica (Bar-bara), Kenneth Bugica andMichael Angelis (Angela). Sixgrandchildren; Brad Bugica,Ryan Bugica, Kimberly Moulliet(Justin), Cara Bugica, Sam An-gelis and Jacob Angelis and 7great-grandchildren; Jillian Bug-ica, Tyler Bugica, Austin Bugica,Emma Bugica, Chloe Moulliet,Brayden Moulliet, Amber Ortonand many nieces and nephews.The family would like to share aspecial thank you to Jean Peter-son for being such a caring andloving companion to George. Wealso commend the staff at LifeCare Center of Reno. A visitationis scheduled for Tuesday, August

29, 2017 from 5:00 pm until 7:00pm at O'Brien-Rogers & CrosbyFuneral Home, 600 W. 2ndStreet, Reno. Recitation of theHoly Rosary is scheduled for10:30 am, Wednesday, August30th with the Mass of ChristianBurial to follow at 11:00 am,Wednesday, August 30th at St.Rose of Lima Catholic Church,Reno. In lieu of flowers, the fam-ily requests masses or gift to TheChildren's Cabinet, 1090 S RockBlvd., Reno NV 89502.

n bakas, GeorGe SCHERERVILLE, IN (from the

Northwest Indiana Times, pub-lished on Aug. 31) – GeorgeBakas, age 88 of Schererville, INand formerly of East Chicagopassed away on August 29, 2017with his loving family by his side.He is survived by his loving wifeof 51 years, Maria; beloved chil-dren: Vicky, Mandy and Peter;grandchildren: Zoe, Abigail,Noah and Maya; brother, JohnBakas; and sister, Vasiliki ofGreece; sisters-in-law: MenaBakas, Dina Bakas, Eleni Bakas,Athina (Thanasis) Petros ofGreece and Aleka Alamanis ofGreece; brother-in-law, Dimitris(Vasiliki) Bourounis of Greece;numerous nieces and nephews inthe United States and Greece.Preceded in death by his parents;brothers: Efthimios, Nikos, andKostas; brothers-in-law: GiorgosRellos and Nikos Alamanis ofGreece. Funeral service will beheld on Saturday, September 2,2017 at 10:00 AM Directly at St.George Greek Orthodox Church,77th & Lincolnwood, Scherervillewith Rev. Constantine Aliferakisofficiating. At rest, RidgelawnCemetery. Friends are invited tovisit with George's family on Fri-day from 4:00 - 8:00 PM at theLinclon Ridge Funeral Home7607 W. Lincoln Hwy. Scher-erville (Rt. 30 East of Cline Ave.)Trisagion prayer service at 7:00PM. George was a lifelong activemember of St. George Greek Or-thodox Church and Ahepa Chap-ter 178. George was a man offew words, but his actions spokevolumes. Always with a kindword, sound advice, and astrength and grace about him, hewill be deeply missed may hismemory be eternal. n

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passed away on august 31, 2017 at home

Born december 26, 1921 in Andros, Greece to the late michaelis Sideris andlate mersinio vasiliki , maria grew up in Andros Greece where her familyoperated a bakaliko (grocery store) in Chora. She was predeceased by herbrothers yianni (John) Sideris of Brooklyn, New york, and Nikolaos Sideris ofAndros. maria was also predeceased by her sisters Anna, koula ufandi, andmardisa all of Neo Psihiko and a sister Georgia of Andros.

After residing for a time in Neo Psihiko, she married wwii uS Army veteranStaff Sargent Panayiotis N. kallivroussis (Peter kalis, born in livadia, Andros) ofNew york City at Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church in Nassau, Bahamaswith her brother John and sister-in-law Penelope Sideris in attendance. She thenimmigrated to the united States as a married woman. After a second wedding forfamily and friends at the Greek Orthodox Church of zoodohos Peghe in TheBronx, New york, they set up home on manhattan’s upper East Side of to benear her brother John and his family. After the passing of her beloved husband in1975 she moved to falls Church, virginia.

After operating manhattan’s well-known Pete’s luncheonette on SecondAvenue at 59th Street, maria and her husband founded The kalis Companies, in-vesting in commercial property in manhattan; Jamaica, New york; and severalvirginia counties. Their real estate property management firm launched 54 yearsago continues today.

She was an active member of St. katherine Greek Orthodox Church in fallsChurch; daughters of Penelope Helle Chapter 283; and the Greek Orthodoxladies Philoptochos Society. She enjoyed trying new restaurants with her familyin washington, dC. She loved cooking, being with her family, and will be remem-bered for her love of all and especially her grandchildren.

She is survived by two sons, michael P. kalis of falls Church, virginia andNicholas P. kalis (katherine) of mclean, virginia and grandchildren Peter N.kalis, irene N. kalis, and Elizabeth kalis.

maria also leaves behind in the united States her nieces marsha Sideris offlorida and lili kazepis of Brooklyn; sister-in-law Evanthia kalis; nephew Jameskalis (Anna) and grand-nephew Paul kalis all of long island, New york. She alsoleaves behind niece Paraskevi liopyros (Pavlos) and nephew Nikolaos issaris(marsha); and grand-nephew George issaris, all of long island, New york.

in Greece, maria leaves behind nieces Ourania Asinanoglou, Jenny katsanou(yianni), moscoula Gavriel, mersini kopaneli and koula kallivroussis, andnephews michael Sideris (irene), Nikolaos kallivroussis, and michael issaris andgrand-nieces Anna Asinanoglou (Stavros Chroni) all of Andros, Greece and mariaAsinanoglou of Crete, Greece. She also leaves behind her cousin Aleka michael ofAgia Paraskevi; grand-niece maria katsanou and grandnephew Panayiotiskatsanos, and other relatives.

in lieu of flowers, contributions can be made in her memory to St. katherineGreek Orthodox Church, 3149 Glen Carlyn road, falls Church, virginia 22041

Arrangements are being handled by murphy funeral Home 1102 west BroadStreet, falls Church 22046.

The family would like to thank dr. Joel Temme, md, dr. melissa Smith, andthe staff at Alexandria Hospital and fairfax Hospital for their care and support.we would also like to thank her caregivers fatima and mariana for their lovingcare.

funeral was on Thursday September 7, 11Am Saint katherine GreekOrthodox Church, 3149 Glen Carlyn road, falls Church, virginia 22041. Burialand makaria to follow.

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ATHENS – With a state-fundedfirst official mosque for Muslimsscheduled to open later inGreece’s capital, police are saidto be monitoring more than 80makeshift mosques in the areaafter reports they are being usedto back ISIS and terror attacks.

Greece has friendly relationswith Arabic and Middle Easterncountries despite a strong anti-Islam stance from extreme na-tionalists, such as the GoldenDawn party, all of whose law-makers, along with dozens ofmembers, are in a long-delayedtrial on charges of running acriminal gang.

While refugees and Muslimsaren’t generally segregated inghettos in Greek cities, policenonetheless are on guard, thenewspaper Kathimerini said, cit-ing a confidential police reportof extremist talk in themakeshift mosques in base-ments, backrooms, and otherplaces difficult to monitor.

The police are trying to putsurveillance in and around thespaces, since a refugee crisis be-gan in 2015, flooding Greecewith refugees and migrants,some 64,000 of whom are stillstuck in the country with thesuspension of a European Unionswap program with Turkey.

Two years ago evidenceemerged that Islamic militants

were making their way into Eu-rope after training in ISIS campsin the Middle East by posing asasylum seekers.

The report also notes somemakeshift mosques that haveconnections to the Egypt-basedMuslim Brotherhood, which isconsidered a terrorist organiza-tion by Russia, Saudi Arabia,Egypt and the United Arab Emi-rates, but not the United Statesand European Union.

When Athens’ first officialmosque opens, due the end ofthe year despite threats byGolden Dawn it won’t stand.

SEEKING SECRETSGreek police and the Citi-

zens’ Protection Ministry areteaming up to provide a morestate-of-the-art electronic intel-ligence gathering and sortinginformation service and willmove a new building.

The division of Information

Management and Analysis (DI-DAP) will be moved by the endof October from Central Athensto the western suburb of Peris-teri with new equipment as theservice had been unable to keepup with the growing need togather and process information.

“The operational capabilitiesof the service will more thandouble,” a senior officer toldKathimerini, adding that thebuilding is not equipped to han-

dle the increased demands ofnew technologies.

An unnamed high-rankingofficial at the Citizens’ Protec-tion Ministry told the paper thatthe intelligence services’ surveil-lance capabilities are being up-graded with the help of Britishexperts.

The Greek police headquar-ters (DIDAP) is also reportedlydeveloping a system to operatea flight passenger name record

(PNR) database to vet orga-nized crime and terrorist sus-pects.

Like the counterterrorismunit and the National Intelli-gence Agency (EYP), it has aninterface system and advancedsoftware for processing thelarge amount of information itgathers.

The stated objective of DI-DAP is to create a space thatwill be equipped with moderntechnical infrastructure andspecialized software applica-tions, which will provide imme-diate and “full support in inves-tigations into organized crimeand terrorism,” the paper said.

Greece is rife with terroristand anarchist groups who at-tack symbols they regard as en-emies, including politicians, for-eign embassies, car dealerships,banks, and regarded as Capital-ist or in league with the coun-try’s international creditors.

Earlier this year, Newsweekreported Greece, the destinationof choice for refugees and mi-grants fleeing the Mideast andSyria’s civil was a conduit forthe Islamic State (ISIS) to sendsuicide bombers and attackers.

“We have sent many opera-tives to Europe with therefugees,” an ISIS commandertold the magazine. “Some ofour brothers have fulfilled theirmission, but others are stillwaiting to be activated.

Greek Police Beef Up Intelligence, Checking Mosques for Terror Links

TNH Staff

NICOSIA – Cyprus’ legitimategovernment wants Turkish-Cypriots to turn against theirhomeland and urge resumptionof unity talks that collapsedwhen Turkey insisted on keep-ing an army on the island.

The call came from Cypriotgovernment spokesman NicosChristodoulides who told jour-nalists he was delivering a mes-sage in a bid to convince Turk-ish-Cypriots the only solution isfor them to get behind unity andpush for new talks.

The negotiations at the Swissresort of Crans-Montana inSwitzerland in July betweenCypriot President Nicos Anas-tasiades and Turkish-Cypriotleader Mustafa Akinci fell apartand there has been bad bloodbetween them after hopessoared when they started talk-ing two years ago.

Turkey, which unlawfully in-vaded the island in 1974 andoccupied the Northern thirdonly it recognizes, is now resort-ing to plans to try to end the in-ternational isolation of Turkish-Cypriots at the same timeTurkish President Recep TayyipErdogan – who wants to join the

European Union, to whichCyprus belongs – won’t recog-nize the government and barsCypriot ships and planes.

Said to be on the agenda ofErdogan, who has near-dictato-rial powers, are unilateral mea-sures to allow the return of Ma-ronites to villages – underTurkish rule – and open theabandoned area of Varosha inthe once-famed resort town ofFamagusta, locked away for 43years.

Turkish-Cypriot teachers re-cently complained about thecreeping religious influencescoming from Turkey, sayingthere were more mosques thanschools in the north and moreyoung people were being influ-enced into religious schools, theCyprus Mail said.

After the talks failure, Turk-ish Foreign Minister MevlutCavusoglu said his countrywould look at options otherthan unity and outside theUnited Nations involvement. Anumber of UN envoys havefailed to make any progress. TheUN keeps a peacekeeping force

on the island between the twosides.

“We were led to the result inCrans-Montana because of theTurkish side’s position at the ne-gotiating table. So the continu-ation of negotiations dependson Turkey’s approach only,”Cavusoglu, essentially declaringTurkey would rule any negotia-tions and only its side should betaken, a likely death knell fornegotiations.

Christodoulides though saidthere’s a better option. “Themessage to the Turkish Cypriotforces seeking the reunificationof our country is that it is timeto react to all of these actionssuch as the prohibition of theoperation in Ayios Mamas, amove designed to distanceGreek and Turkish Cypriots,” re-ferring to the cancellation ofservices at the Morphou churchbecause it clashed with the Is-lamic holiday of KurbanBayram.

“We are not a pseudo-gov-ernment. We are Cyprus, an EUMember State and move withinthe framework of EU principlesand values and will not pursuetactics aimed at any prohibitionson Turkish Cypriots, he said.

“I am convinced that the ma-

jority of Turkish Cypriots wanta future in a reunified country,in an EU member state, and nota future with Turkey,”Christodoulides concluded.

The United Kingdom’s HighCommissioner for Cyprus,Matthew Kidd, said just becauseCyprus’ unity talks collapseddoesn’t mean there’s a deadlockthat can’t be broken althoughboth sides – Cyprus and Turkey– said there was little hope.

Kidd told Cyprus’ CYBC radiothat a way must be found to re-sume the talks he said had re-sulted in progress that was notrevealed because the negotia-tions are secret, even thoughthey broke down when Turkeyinsisted on keeping an army onthe island in the northern thirdit unlawfully occupied during a1974 invasion.

“There has been no agree-ment, but it would be a pity tolose the progress made so far,”he said in Greek, adding that itwill be difficult to start the talksagain, but not impossible al-though he didn’t offer any ideasbesides entreaties.

workers, pensioners and thepoor.

The demonstrations wereplanned to begin with a massiveanti-government rally aimed atTsipras and his junior partner,the pro-austerity, far-right, jin-goistic Independent Greeks(ANEL) who also backtrackedon campaign promises to getinto a coalition with its ideolog-ical rival.

“Faced with the fresh on-slaught of measures being im-plemented by the government,there is no way but to fight,”GSEE said in an announcement,adding that the Thessalonikimarch will be the start of moreaction to come.

Some 2,000 police officerswere assigned for the beefed-upsecurity measures in Athens forthe visit of Macron just beforethe Thessaloniki event.

Knocked down in the pollsfor repeated reneging on anti-austerity promises, Tsiprasplanned to use the fair to de-clare his ruling Radical LeftSYRIZA-led coalition hasbrought Greece to the cusp ofrecovery.

Tsipras was to present hiskeynote address in the country’ssecond-largest city on Sept. 9,faced with protests there fromthe country’s police, firefighters,Coast Guard and other publicorder forces and as the majorrival and poll-leading NewDemocracy Conservatives con-tinue to ridicule him for not be-ing able to control rebelliousanti-investment ministers.

He met with business leadersin the major port city – arrangedafter New Democracy chief Kyr-iakos Mitsotakis had made sim-ilar plans.

Tsipras will reportedly claimhis surrender to internationalcreditors to secure release of 8.5billion euros ($10.14 billion)from a delayed third bailout of86 billion euros ($102.55 bil-lion) he said he would neverseek nor accept but did bothwas the linchpin for an eco-nomic comeback, even thoughit came at the lost of more pen-sion cuts and taxes on low-in-come families.

Aides told Kathimerini hewill cite the floating of a 3-bil-lion euro ($3.58 billion) bondin July – at interest rates morethan three times higher thanwhat the country is paying for326 billion euros ($388.72 bil-

lion) in three rescue packagesis another key factor for recov-ery.

He will also point to anotherrecord tourism year as proofhappy days are coming again forGreeks battered by seven yearsof an economic crisis and bigpay cuts, tax hikes, slashed pen-sions, worker firings, and thestripping of workers rights, con-tinued under his government,which promised to reversethem.

He has apparently set asidehopes of offering giveawayswhich TIF is used to do by politi-cians who then rarely keep theirpromises as benefits for work-ers, pensioners and the poor

would require the sign-off of theTroika of the European Union-European Central Bank-Euro-pean Stability Mechanism (EU-ECB-ESM) and the DC-basedInternational Monetary Fund,who put up the bailouts begin-ning in 2010 and want to pro-tect banks.

“People are not expecting tobe impressed by what they willhear at TIF,” one source close toTsipras, who was not named,told the paper. “What they wantto hear is a message of stability,of reassurance that everythingwill go smoothly so they cangradually start making plansagain, even with limited re-sources.”

Tsipras Hopes for Boost from Thessaloniki Fair Turkish-Cypriots Urged to Rebuff Ankara,Push Unity Hopes

President of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriotleader Mustafa Akinci.


The 82nd Annual Thessaloniki International Fair honors China, sending a message of cooperationbetween the two nations. The event features a variety of exhibitions and events.

TNH Staff

ATHENS – The German-basedsupermarket chain Lidl said itwas sorry that the cross atop aniconic Santorini domed churchwas airbrushed off packagingfor some of the company’sGreek-themed products and willput it back on.

No reason was given why thecross was taken off the pack-ages although Lidl goes acrossEurope and into areas of largeMuslim populations, particu-larly in Germany.

The church photo was atoppackaging of the Greek-themedEridanous products, which in-clude olive oil, Greek spice mix-tures, and baklava sweet pas-tries. The church is one of themost famous in the world, ap-pearing constantly in images ofSantorini, the world’s top-ratedisland destination this year.

“We are sorry for any offensecaused by the artwork on ourEridanous range. We can con-firm that we will be revising the

design as soon as possible,” theGerman discounter said in astatement, the news agencyReuters reported.

Lidl said its product designwas not intended to convey anyideological standpoint butdidn’t then explain what theidea was behind taking off thecross.

“We made a mistake in the

most recent revision of theproduct design and are nowtreating the issue with the high-est priority,” Lidl said.

The images were widely crit-icized on social media.

“We should all take pens intoour local stores and drawcrosses on the products! I won’tbe shopping in Lidl’s anymore,”Irene Knight said on Lidl UK’s

Facebook page, the agency re-ported.

Lidl has expanded rapidly inEurope to become one of thecontinent’s biggest retailers. Itnow runs more than 10,000stores in 27 countries in Europeand this year opened its firststores in the United States. It isone of the few markets doingwell in crisis-wracked Greece.

Lidl Sorry for Removing Greek Church Crosses

Afghan migrants who live in Greece protest in central Athens demanding legal rights for refugees.

This Week in Greek History

Our weekly column “Thisweek in Greek History” willnot be published this weekdue to technical reasons. It

will appear again next week.German-based supermarket chain Lidl said it was sorry for airbrushing off the cross atop aniconic Santorini domed church from packaging of the company’s Greek-themed products.

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EDITORIALS LETTERS12 THE NATIONAL HERALD, SEPTEMBER 9-15, 2017

An 82-Year-Old LetterThat is Still Timely

To the Editor:During his lifetime, my father,

Stephen Contogeorge, distin-guished himself by becoming adoctor of chiropractics, the directorof the Spartacus Club for intel-lectual Greeks in New York, anda writer for the New York WorldTelegram.

The following is a letter of hispublished in the Telegram on Sep-tember 13, 1935. As his prouddaughter, I now share this withyour readers:

“Permit me to say throughyour valuable newspaper thatthose who destructively criticizeour noble President are eitherconscious or unconscious enemiesof the convalescent present orderand the American people. Myfirm belief, however, is that Pres-ident Roosevelt has worked over-time and without extra pay, findingways and means to safeguard theAmerican people and the Ameri-can representative form of gov-ernment. Yet there are peoplewho criticize him so inadvertently.Our capitalistic system was chron-ically sick. Obsolete methods anddoctrines could not have savedit; new basic and scientific meth-ods had to be applied if we wereto see the tottering structure erect.It was suffering from a plethoraof subluxations and luxations.President Roosevelt as a super-chiropractic physician has appliedthe new basic and scientific ad-justments to the sick and intricatemechanism of our capitalisticstructure, and he has saved it.”

At that time, President FranklinRoosevelt was advocating forhealth care for all U.S. citizens.Sadly, my father died a few yearslater at age 37, yet his wordsapply even today.

Sofia Kontogeorge KostosNew York, NY

The Need for Clarity on GreekMilitary Service

To the Editor:Many Greek males whether

born in America, Greece or an-other foreign country are afraidto visit Greece, or if they go,they are afraid of being stoppedat passport control because theyhave not fulfilled their militaryduty.

Just recently, my son wasstopped and detained at theAthens airport, even though hedid all the required paperworkthat was required to clear hismilitary obligation at the NYCGreek Consulate. His stay inGreece was twenty days.

Laws in Greece are alwayschanging in terms of this prob-lem and many parents are con-fused; I hear that this obligationcan be paid off, which I don’tbelieve.

Of course the correct way ofclearing this confusion is to con-tact or visit the Greek Consulate,however even then one is stilldoubtful.

Thank you,Peggy Koutsantonis

Staten Island, NY

The Response of the ConsulGeneral of Greece in NY

Dear Mr. Diamataris,Thank you very much for

your initiative to send me Mrs.Koutsantonis’s letter, for I havethe opportunity to clarify in writ-ing some of the issues that, un-fortunately, due to inadequateinformation or misinterpretationof the legal documents, some-times create, unpleasant situa-tions for some members of ourOmogeneia during their stay inour homeland. Specifically:

1. Mrs. Koutsantonis’s son

had already been informed andserved from the Consulate Gen-eral in respect to his militaryrecruitment before he traveledto Greece. He had been expresslyinformed that he was under anobligation to take immediate ac-tion to correct his erroneousregistry information in the com-petent municipality in Greecein order to complete the foreseenprocedure by the relevant mili-tary recruitment service. As he,under his own responsibility, didnot take this action, which wasa precondition for his militaryarrangement that had as a resulthis exit prohibition from thecountry, issue that was resolved,by our immediate intervention,on the same day. For this reason,Mr. Koutsantoni’s mother sentan electronic thank-you messageto the Consulate General.

2. In general, in order to re-solve the problem of the exitprohibition from Greece due totheir military service obligations,the Greek nationals permanentlyliving abroad (Omogeneis)should arrange immediately theirmilitary obligations, upon com-pletion of their enrollment inthe male records in a Munici-pality in Greece, so as to post-pone serving in the Greek armyas permanent residents abroad,of course having met the condi-tions required under the GreekRecruiting Law. If the residentsabroad cannot be militaryarranged (because they havenot lived more than eleven yearsabroad or seven years of per-manent work in the UnitedStates), they should inform in

time the competent Greek mili-tary offices, through the ConsularAuthorities of their place of res-idence, in order to declare them-selves Draft Evaders Abroad,and to receive a certificate offoreign Draft Evasion, so that,in accordance with the Article54 of Law 3401/2005, may visitGreece up to 30 days, in part orin whole, per calendar year,without any impediment.

3. Additionally, I’d like toremind you that according tothe Article 57, LawN.3421/2005, that has been ineffect since December 13th,2005, (so, this is not a new law)anybody who is over 35 yearsold can pay off the remainingof their military obligations, ifthey have previously enlistedand fulfilled a military commit-ment of only 20 days.

4. The Consulate General ofGreece in New York is always atthe disposition of our fellowOmogeneis to accommodatetheir needs and provide accurateinformation. In particular on re-cruitment issues, those who areinterested should inquire andbe informed only by the militaryrecruitment office of the Con-sulate General, or the relevantrecruitment offices in Greece,or by the official website:www.stratologia.gr, in order toavoid misinterpretation thatcould lead to similar situationsas above.

Kind regards,Konstantinos Koutras

Consul General of Greece inNew York

A Change of SeasonsThe Four Seasons, one of the leading hotel chains in the

world, is joining forces with the hotel Astir Palace in Vou-liagmeni, about 20 miles outside of Athens, under the nameFour Seasons Astir Palace Athens.

They will spend €100 million to upgrade the facilities andadjacent areas.

This cooperation combines one of the most beautiful placeson the planet, the Astir, with one of the leading hotel compa-nies in the world.

And because the Four Seasons is well-known worldwideand has a large, upscale clientele, it almost guarantees that –provided it is allowed to go about its business – it will attracthigh-end customers who, unfortunately, have been absentfrom Greece to a large extent to this point.

It really is amazing how a country like Greece, whichrelies to a considerable extent on tourism, cannot have a topquality hotel chain operating there.

We have several times assailed the misleading way inwhich the Tourism Ministry measures the progress made inthe way it calculates the benefits of tourism.

What counts, we keep insisting, is not the number oftourists visiting Greece, but the amount of money they spendin the country as calculated by the Bank of Greece; by thelatter measure, there is a decrease, not an increase.

The reality, then, is that while Greece was actuallyswarmed by tourists this year, they arrived on budget airlines,stayed in hotels where everything is inclusive, the hotelsthemselves are struggling to cover their costs because theprices they charge are very low, and the local communitiesgain no benefit because the tourists do not venture outsideof the hotels.

And yet the Greek authorities stubbornly and shockinglyignore the Diaspora tourism, the best the country can everattract at a minimum cost.

Moreover, the lack of high-end tourists has brought manyof Greece’s large and well-known hotels to the verge of de-spair.

So, the tourism sector in Greece has hit bottom. Many ofthe hotels have reached their limit. And things are worsenedby the liquidity pressure imposed by capital controls.

It is therefore quite important that at last the Astir, whichhad fallen into decline due to poor government managementand unbridled labor claims, cooperates with one of the world’stop hotel chains.

And who knows, other similar collaborations may follow.If added to the mix is a government that believes in up-

grading the Greek tourist product, then it is certain that thecountry will see significant benefits from this. It will createmeaningful jobs, the surrounding regions’ economies willbenefit, and the state will collect taxes.

Isn’t that what it’s all about?Eventually everything, or almost everything, is a matter

of politics. And the decline of Greece’s tourism is due to thefailing state of its politics.

So, let us hope that the entrance of a leading hotel com-pany will mark the beginning of the renaissance of Greektourism. And keep in mind, that is not because of the presentpolitical situation, but because businesspersons are expectingthe election of a new, friendly government.

Broken DreamsOne way to judge a nation’s importance is to observe

how many of its citizens emigrate from it versus how manyforeigners wish to immigrate to it.

For natives, the most important criterion for their decisionto leave is economic.

But for strangers, their decision to migrate to a countrynot only has to do with the economic conditions in the desti-nation nation, as important as they may be, but also of thegeneral climate concerning immigrants. Who wants to livesomewhere that does not feel welcoming?

And America, unfortunately, the par excellence countryof immigrants, is increasingly creating an anti-immigrant cli-mate, one that sooner or later will make it less attractive asa host country compared to others, such as Germany. Andthat will have a negative impact on all of us.

Foreigners, many studies have shown, make a major con-tribution to our country. A whole third of the businesses arefounded by non-native-born Americans, including some ofthe most impressive ones, like Google.

President Trump, on Twitter, recently announced that hewill terminate the program that gives legal cover to approxi-mately 800,000 persons who were brought into the countryby their parents without documentation, when they werechildren.

For the vast majority of them, the United States is theonly country they have ever known. How could they leavewithout having a passport? And many of them do not evenspeak the language of their parents’ native country.

So, then, what else are these people if not Americans?They call them Dreamers, because many of them have

achieved the American dream, have attended colleges, holdproductive jobs, are businesspersons.

It is for that reason that polls show that they enjoy theoverwhelming support of the American people, who are infavor of them staying here.

It is true that when President Obama signed an executiveorder that provided legal cover for Dreamers, Donald Trumpcriticized him harshly. Thus, he cannot be accused of incon-sistency between election promises and presidential acts.

But would this be the only promise he would break? At the end of the day, it is the tone the country sets on the

immigration issue that will define it to a significant extent.Let us keep that in mind.

COMMENTARY

It is useful to begin this col-umn by stating the conclusionfirst: symbols of the ConfederateStates of America, whether theConfederate Flag or statues andother public monuments of Con-federate leaders, should be takendown. Furthermore, PresidentTrump, who recently declaredthat such symbols are part of our“history and heritage,” is on thewrong side of this issue.

That said, those who are mostvocal about eradicating suchsymbols from our public land-scape are defeating their ownpurpose by overstating their case,thereby transforming a reason-able point of view into a cacoph-ony of radical histrionics.

An apt summary of why theflags and statutes ought to betaken down was delivered by po-litical comedian/commentatorBill Maher, host of HBO’s RealTime, who in a recent episode,taking on the accent of a genericSouthern gentleman, called for“Southern hospitality” on thismatter, stating: “Well, if this of-fends some people, I won’t do it.”

There is no question that tomany Americans, Confederatesymbols conjure extremely un-pleasant memories of our na-tion’s checkered past, specificallyregarding the abominable insti-tution of slavery, and its often-related symptom of racism. Atthis point, debating whether ornot the offended ones’ perspec-tive is justifiable is beside thepoint. The question is, again, asMaher suggested: why do it?

That all depends, of course,on how important it is for peopleto brandish those symbols.

Consider this example: youhost an annual Fourth of Julybarbecue, at which you alwaysserve hamburgers, hot dogs,steaks, and ribs. But one of yourguests this year is a staunch ve-gan who rails against the killing

of animals for hu-man consumption.Your spouse says:“let’s not serve anymeat this year, be-cause (the guest)will be highly of-fended.” Consider-ing that you your-self are ameat-lover, as is thevast majority ofyour guests, youconclude that whileit is unfortunatethat this guestwould be offended,the quality of yourbarbecue would be significantlyimpacted without any meat fare– and so you leave it on themenu.

Instead, suppose that the issuehad to do with one of the songson your playlist of, say 200, se-lections, which would last the en-tire afternoon into the evening.Your spouse explains that a par-ticular song is painful, for per-sonal reasons, to one of theguests, and so it would be bestnot to play it. In that case, youconclude that removing a mereone song from your repertoire of200 will make no significant im-pact on your event’s quality, andso you readily agree not to playit.

The question, then, is, areConfederate symbols integral tothe lives of those who want toretain them, or are some of thosefolks doggedly digging in theirheels for the sake of principle?

Personally, I love the South:its laid-back lifestyle, homespunwisdom, food, music, and mostof all, warm weather. This shouldgo without saying, but just incase: I absolutely detest slaveryand racism. To me, the Confed-erate symbols are not a source ofpride or heritage, as I am not aSoutherner. But as I am also not

a descendant ofAmerican slaves(I’m a descendant ofGreek ones), thereis nothing person-ally chilling to meabout the DixieFlag. Yes, I know theKKK harassedGreeks in the South,but I don’t person-ally have any rela-tives telling me hor-ror stories, as domany African-Amer-icans and Jews.

To me, then, theConfederate Flag is

something I can live with or with-out – like parades, beautypageants, reality shows, the bal-let, and coconuts (apologies tothose who hold any of thosethings near and dear) – but Idon’t particularly care if they con-tinue to exist.

What a lot of people whowant Confederate symbols re-moved fail to understand,though, is that to some people,the symbols are benign, conjur-ing fond memories of childhood(just as the George WashingtonBridge does for me) rather thanhaving anything to do with theevils of slavery and racism. Thatis detrimental to their cause, be-cause angrily and irrationallyaccusing every single lover ofConfederate relics of being aracist might reverse an inclina-tion toward such Southern hos-pitality.

To continue with Maher’s lineof thinking, the Southerner onthe fence might say: “Well, if youshout at me, I no longer care verymuch about offending you.”

As I have written before, I ex-pect more from President Trumpin terms of the component of hispresidency that is being Healer-in-Chief. I voted for him for thereasons I have enumerated

countless times in this column,but I am the first to say when itcomes to mollifying heated ten-sions, he is not the right personfor that aspect of the job. But, Ihope at least he tries to do morethan he has done. Part of thatmay require him to speak aboutthe evils of slavery and racism,without adopting his critical (jus-tifiably) tone of those who falselyaccuse him of being a racist justbecause he doesn’t condemnracists every single time hespeaks, and because he dares toblame other people or groups forunprovoked violence.

Of course, there are some –and how many, we have no ideaof knowing, because none of usare mind-readers – who purportto favor retaining Confederatesymbols for historical reasons,but in reality simply or predomi-nantly want to perpetuate theirhateful, racist agenda. We sawexamples of that in Char-lottesville.

To conclude, then, weighingall the factors involved, I thinkthe best thing to do for the nationas a whole is to remove Confed-erate symbols from public dis-plays. The pain and conflict issimply not worth whatever nos-talgic joy it gives to non-racistConfederate folklore enthusiasts.

However, to state this for theumpteenth time: the Nazis andthe KKK are bad institutions.Donald Trump supporters andConfederate folklore sympathiz-ers are not. Yes, there are someamong them who are, but abroad brush that condemns all ofthem for the actions of a few is…well…quite racist.

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Confederate Symbols Should Come Down, but Will Not

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The Thessaloniki Interna-tional Fair in Greece’s forgottensecond city is better known forbeing a parade of lies frompoliticians promising giveawaysthan the exhibits, and this yearhosted the King of Hypocrites,Prime Minister and Looney Leftleader Alexis “The Great Re-neger” Tsipras, who planned touse it for a spin bigger thanHurricane Harvey.

Tsipras, sinking faster inpolls than President Trump’schances of passing a sanity test,was set to use the event to per-suade gullible Greeks (there’ssomewhere between 10-15 per-cent who still support him eventhough he reneged on promisesto reverse pay cuts, tax hikes,slashed pensions, and workerfirings) he’s their savior.

Tsipras would claim his sur-render to international creditorsto secure release of 8.5 billioneuros ($10.14 billion) from adelayed third bailout of 86 bil-lion euros ($102.55 billion) hesaid he would never seek noraccept but did both was thelinchpin for an economic come-back, even though it came atthe cost of more pension cutsand taxes on low-income fami-lies.

Aides told Kathimerini hewould cite the floating of a 3-billion euro ($3.58 billion)bond in July – at interest ratesmore than three times higherthan what the country is payingfor 326 billion euros ($388.72billion) in three rescue pack-ages was another key factor forrecovery.

He planned to also point toanother record tourism year asproof happy days are comingagain for Greeks battered byseven years of an economic cri-sis and big pay cuts, tax hikes,slashed pensions, worker firingsand the stripping of workersrights, continued under his gov-ernment, which promised to re-

verse them.Given that he

can speak out ofboth sides of hisforked tonguemouth at the sametime he has bothfeet in them whilehe’s tap dancingfaster than Bojan-gles, it wouldn’t beout of the questionfor him to alsoclaim he was thegreatest Greek ofall time, includingPericles.

So disregardwhatever he said as purefalderal, and if he had an ounceof integrity (he doesn’t) here’swhat the truth would have beenhad he the guts to admit it. But,as Heraclitus said, a man’s char-acter is his fate so we know hisis to be among those set asideas described in the words of theNobel Prize winning poetGeorge Seferis: “No one re-members them: Justice.”

The speech he didn’t daregive:

“Fellow Greeks and victimsof the austerity that I imposedafter promising to reverse paycuts, tax hikes, slashed pensionsand firings - not including, ofcourse, my friends the shipowners who beat me like arented mule when I vowed tomake them pay taxes, nor theoligarchy I promised to crushbut who steamrolled me, northe rich nor politicians nor taxcheats who escaped sacrifice be-cause, well, because this isGreece and that’s how it goes.

“I should have thought thatthe worth which had displayeditself in deeds would be suffi-ciently rewarded by honoursalso shown by deeds, as Periclessaid, if only I knew what thatmeant.

“Greece today isn’t on theverge of a recovery. I said it was

just to get votes,even though byreneging on anti-austerity promises- which I blamedmy predecessorsNew Democracyand PASOK for do-ing. Greece won’trecover for decadesbecause 326 billioneuros in debt can’tbe repaid and Ididn’t get the debtrelief I promisedeven after I cavedin to our lenders,the Troika – yes,

Troika – not The Institutions.“Pensioners who manage to

stay alive after I’ve cut theirbenefits after promising to re-store them have me to blame. Iagreed to tax low-income peo-ple and families because theyhave no clout nor voice and therich and elite and shipownersand oligarchy who own me aremore important to my well-be-ing than the common good ofGreece.

“Greece’s economy won’t re-cover for decades. Young peoplewho fled the country in searchof a job and a better life won’tcome back but will enrich theirnew homelands with their ge-nius and hard work and entre-preneurship, none of which arevalued here because it’s more

important to appoint croniesand hacks and lackeys and but-tboys and yes men than peopleof merit and quality.

“My party does not believein excellence in anything, in-cluding education, as the igno-rance shown by my ministers,who couldn’t graduate fromClown College, has shown.SYRIZA really stands for noth-ing except staying in power, col-lecting fat paychecks and usingthe public treasury as a meansto reward our friends, the sameway New Democracy and PA-SOK did, but it was easier toblame them then tell the truth,which I don’t really know howto do.

“I lied to get into office be-cause that’s the best way to doit. I lied when I called a refer-endum in 2015 asking Greeksto oppose austerity even thoughI had already sold them out byagreeing to do so.

“I didn’t mind throwingthem under the bus becausethey are disposable and wouldbelieve in stupid gas conspira-cies, which, if true, means thegas landed only on them.

“The truth is, I don’t have aclue what to do, so maybesomeone can come up with afuneral oration for my politicalfuture.”

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By Dimitra Pontoporou

“We pay tribute to those whoare gone and we welcome thosewho are born.” With thosewords, Lito Dakou, the MolyvosInternational Music Festival’s or-ganizational soul, began her in-troductory speech at the 2017Festival, which took place onLesbos August 16-19.

Regardless of the economicdepression, three young musiclovers and performers that comefrom the island, Dimitris Tryfon,and Kyveli and Danae Doerken,found the courage to organize

a demanding festival in thesmall picturesque town ofMolyvos, inviting youngrenowned and awarded soloistsof true style and virtuosity, fromall over the world to performthere. They would meet just aweek before the concerts, andafter a few rehearsals theywould play important works ofthe classical music repertoire.The initiative was embraced notonly by the local community.The second year it already wontwo awards in Greece andabroad: The Greek Music CriticsAssociation Award and the Clas-sical NEXT Innovation Award.

The Festival is held for thethird consecutive year. For thesecond time this year Europeanchannels and media came toLesbos. This time they wouldn’tcover the despair, suffering, andlamentation of the refugees.They would cover the celebra-

tion of a young people’s high-quality initiative that promotesinternational cooperation andunderstanding through music inthe Aegean border of Europe tothe East.

Introducing a classical musicfestival to a Greek island is anambitious task. Classical musicdoesn’t belong to our tradition.Who would attend the concerts?Where would the concerts beheld? Aiming at the promotionof the island’s character the con-certs took place in emblematicsites of Lesbos, that bring for-ward fundamental tourist as-

sets: in historical sites, the Sanc-tuary of Messon and Molyvoscastle, in the Petrified ForestGeopark, in the thermal bathsof Gera Bay, in a winery. The artfeast was spread to the entireisland and the number of thespectators far outreached theexpected.

Without their usual high re-ward, what brought to Molyvos21 renowned soloists? In whatdoes this Festival differ fromother Classical Music Festivalsheld in Europe?

Soloists travel a lonely road.Throughout the year they travelto different cities of the worldto perform. In Molyvos theymeet and enjoy the Greekphiloxenia. They play with theirfriends in an inspiring land-scape. Practicing only three re-hearsals before the perfor-mances their non-verbalcommunication and their eye to

eye dialogue during the concertshas to be intense. The result ismoving: unsophisticated innerexpression in a unique musicalconversation between friends,extraordinary good performers.

The Festival’s guiding themethis year was Catharsis. Cathar-sis is defined as the redemptionof the human soul from ele-ments that impede its balancedfunction, its purification. Aris-totle highlighted that we cansurpass a state of emotional tur-moil by watching it unfold on astage. Catharsis then comesthrough compassion and fear.

Music mirrors our own inneremotional conflicts. Music canbecome the therapeutic energythat may ultimately heal us.Many ancient Greek texts men-tion the healing power of musicand match certain disorderswith particular rhythms andmusical genres.

The Festival’s OrganizingCommittee had programmedsome of the main works of theclassical chamber repertoire thattrigger a cathartic processwithin the listener. Messiaen’sQuatuor pour la Fin de Temps,deals with re-discovering hopeand strength through musiceven in the most hopeless situ-ations. Messiaen composed it in-spired by the Apocalypse, whilstbeing held as a prisoner in aGerman concentration camp.The String Quartet No 8,Op.110 was composed bySostakovich within only three

days. According to the com-poser’s son it was his statementagainst totalitarianism, includ-ing the Soviet and a tribute tothose who died in the II WorldWar. One of the most importantcomposers associated withcatharsis is Johann SebastianBach, whose cantata “My soulswims in blood” was performedin Molyvos by the renowned so-prano Marlis Petersen. The Fes-tival explored the process ofcatharsis from the perspectiveof the ancient Greek music cul-ture, that saw the Dionysiacflute and the Apollonian guitar

(lyre) as the central instrumentsof cathartic music making.Therefore, were performed De-bussy’s Syrinx, Tarrega’s Capri-cho Arabe and Piazzolla’s His-toire du Tango for Flute andGuitar.

The soloists brought music toeveryday life. Unexpectedly infront of a fish tavern a truck un-loads a piano and Marlis Pe-tersen, who last year had theprotagonist role as a dazzling“Lulu” at the New York Metro-politan Opera, sings Schubert.

This innovative initiative isthe celebration of the unim-peded courage and vision, ofpeace and culture in the middleof the social and economic cri-sis, which particularly hit Les-bos. The founders need oursupport to establish Molyvos asa cultural and musical destina-tion at the Aegean border ofEurope.

Catharsis in the Molyvos International Music Festival

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The Speech Tsipras Should Have Given in Thessaloniki

by andydabilis


Last month, anideological debatewas sparked by therotating presidencyof the Council ofthe EuropeanUnion, currentlyheld by Estonia,when it invited jus-tice ministers fromall the bloc’s mem-ber states to an in-formal conferenceon the crimes com-mitted by commu-nist regimes, in as-sociation with theEurope-wide Day of Remem-brance for the victims of all to-talitarian and authoritarianregimes marked on August 23.The event triggered protestsfrom some European leftist par-ties, which called on politiciansto boycott the event, withGreece’s justice minister also de-clining to attend. Those dis-agreeing with the event notedthat it was inappropriate toequate communism with fas-cism, especially during a timewhen neo-Nazism is on the risein Europe.

The question of whether ornot oppression and persecutionon behalf of different polities isone and the same, despite thepolitical differences of its perpe-trators, surpasses the scope ofthis column, although it remainsa pertinent question and shouldpreoccupy the citizenry. On theother hand, what is lamentableis Europe’s hypocrisy in de-nouncing certain evils that havemarred social and political life,but turning a blind eye to others.

Lest we forget, this monthmarks the tragic anniversary ofthe Asia Minor Catastrophe,when the Turks committedgenocide against the Christiansof Asia Minor and uprooted themillennia-old presence of Hel-lenism from those lands. Thenumber of ethnic Greeks mur-dered likely approaches 1 mil-lion, while another 1.5 millionfled as refugees. Setting asidethe satanic cruelty of Ataturkand his army – along with theirregulars who looted, raped,and murdered under theirwatch, this inhuman persecutionoccurred right under the nose ofthe militaries of the “Great Pow-ers,” which idly stood by ascountless innocent people werebutchered as martyrs. Ataturkbenefitted from aid offered tohim by the Soviet Union, whilethe newspapers in 1930s Ger-many contain references to theclose relation between AdolfHitler’s “national socialism” and

Turkish Kemalism. Hitler himselfwent on record calling himself“a student of Ataurk,” and illus-trating his admiration for the lat-ter through epithets such as“shining star” and “most impor-tant man of the century.”

And yet, 95 years after thisheinous event, which AmericanConsul George Horton bestsummed up as “a feeling ofshame that I belonged to the hu-man race,” Europe continues tolook idly as its name givers areoverrun by barbarism.

In an article first publishedin The Red Cross Magazine(March, 1918), Henry Morgen-thau (1856-1946), United Statesambassador to Turkey, asked:"Will the outrageous terrorizing,the cruel torturing, the drivingof women into the harems, thedebauchery of innocent girls, thesale of many of them at eightycents each, the murdering ofhundreds of thousands and thedeportation to, and starvationin, the deserts of other hundredsof thousands, the destruction ofhundreds of villages and cities,will the willful execution of thiswhole devilish scheme to anni-hilate the Armenian, Greek andSyrian Christians of Turkey – willall this go unpunished?” The an-swer to the ambassador’s ques-

tion leaves no roomfor doubt today.

And yet still, un-der the hegemonyof Germany, whichMorgenthau explic-itly blames in hismemoirs as thechief instigator ofthe extermination,not only has the in-justice of the Chris-tian Genocidefailed to have beenduly recognized,but new assaultsagainst the country

have been launched. Admittedly,this time, not with the yataghanand the soldier’s boot (excludingCyprus, of course), but rather,with the banker’s suit and thetechnocrat’s pen, thanks towhom the people of Greece haveonce again become uprootedfrom their ancient lands, forcedto flee from the raids of a newbarbarian – this time an eco-nomic one.

Greece’s current economicstate rivals that of the Great De-pression; in fact, posting evenworse figures in some cases. Andif the sorry state of the economycan be directly attributed to thegrossly irresponsible, criminallynegligent, and downright trea-sonous policies instituted andmaintained by a Greek politicalsystem that overwhelminglyserves cronyism and corruption,the nation’s European partnersbear an equal share of culpabil-ity in this ongoing drama.

Setting aside the decades ofnonexistent oversight or the ac-quiescence to the nation’s entryinto the euro zone despite theclear economic peril, Europe’sgreatest responsibility did notcome until after Greece’s defacto insolvency. Lenders gave abankrupt state the largestbailout in history to save theirnations’ private banks and sub-sequently convert the loans intopublic debt. Not satisfied withsaving their largest banks (andas a result, national economies)from a fate similar to Greece’s(but hardly as severe), the EUproceeded to turn Greece into amodern-day debt colony, placingimpossible demands for eachtranche of loan monies thatnever make their way into theGreek economy and exactingsadistic punishment upon thecitizens in the process. Pensionshave been decimated, salariesminced, state properties practi-cally given away… In a countrydesperately in need of invest-ments, by demand of its credi-tors and European “partners,”the sales tax on practically every-thing (including food) is a wal-loping 24 percent, corporate, in-dividual, and social securitytaxes are among the highest inEurope, with the estimated taxfor the following year requiredto be paid in full during the cur-rent year! Perhaps the worst partis that in contrast to the othernations with high taxes thathave a robust social welfare sys-tem in place, almost none of themonies collected are reinvestedin the country – just ask anyonewho has been to the hospital, re-quired assistance from emer-gency responders, or driven ona Greek country roads.

These are the realities ofGreece’s current financial woes,which have affected every aspectof society. Much like the ills thatthe nation suffered during thejunta, civil war, royalist vs. re-publican division, etc. they arethe result of foreign dilemmas,ideas, and struggles that theneo-Hellenes have imposedupon ourselves. However, youcannot walk in a poorly fittingshoe that isn’t yours and expectnot to bleed. In Greece’s case, ithas bled profusely.

So long as the nation’s lead-ers and citizenry remain fixatedupon ideas generated to suit theneeds of others, without comingup with ideas of our own or tai-loring borrowed ideas to suit ourown unique social and culturalneeds, we will continue to sufferthe consequences of our part-ners’ hypocrisy and their appar-ent historical grudge againstGreece. After all, the Europe weknow was born from the GreatSchism…

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Lest we forget, this month marks the tragic anniversary of the Asia MinorCatastrophe, when the Turks committedgenocide against theChristians of Asia Minor.

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at noon on Friday and resumeon Monday (Aug. 28). He’s neverbeen through a hurricane before.I go back to the supermarketand buy three pallets of bottledwater.

Friday is dreary but nothingspecial. And then, in the middleof the night, which magnifiesthe fear exponentially, Harveyhits. The wind is powerfulenough that I lose power inter-mittently throughout the night.Harvey makes landfall in CorpusChristi, devastates Rockport, andis now wreaking havoc in Hous-ton and the surrounding com-munities. By Sunday morning,my best friend’s garage has fivefeet of water. Her house, on theother hand, is okay because,after two floods in 2015 and2016 destroyed everything, itwas elevated to prevent a thirddisaster. Unfortunately, her sondid not follow suit.

My daughter is about 45 min-utes away, but the major roadbetween us is already flooded.So I have my hurricane adven-ture alone. I have power, thankgoodness. I watch the news and,when I can’t take much more, Ibinge-watch everything I don’thave time for during the acade-mic year: Ray Donovan, ThePath, The Handmaid’s Tale –real thigh-slappers, I know. I’mreading: The Iliad, The Merchantof Venice, Stephen King. Youmust think I need to be rescuedbefore I lose it completely. I’mokay. I also have plenty of wineand chocolate.

A friend who lives in an ex-clusive high-rise has been with-out water and power for days.Two colleagues have lost every-thing. One has a teenage sonwho struggles with depression.He’s having a really hard time.The 82-year old mother of an-other colleague waits 18 hours,12 of them in her attic, to berescued. A family from churchhas been forced to evacuate.Yesterday, their neighborhood

barely had any rain. The unpre-dictability of this thing adds tothe stress.

Helicopters hover overhead.

Sirens scream down the streets.Police. Fire. Ambulances. All thehospitals in Sugar Land areclosed. The closest one is up

the freeway, which is flooded. The Sunday NY Times arrives

on Tuesday. I’m receiving phone calls and

texts from family and friendsaround the country. From friendsaround town. Everyone is wor-ried about everyone else, andwe are all helpless to do any-thing. We are cautioned to stayindoors if we have no reason tobe otherwise. First respondershave come from all over thecountry to help our own. I betyou see what I see on TV – citi-zen-responders wading throughhigh water, deploying fishingboats, kayaks, and inflatablerafts to rescue stranded neigh-bors and strangers. Unfortunate-ly, you see the scammers andlooters who emerge from theswamps of humanity to prey onthe desperate among us as well.But the heroism and resilienceof everyone else affected by Har-vey overshadows them.

On Wednesday (Aug. 31),the sun comes out. My subdivi-sion is surrounded by water onthree sides, but the sun is shin-ing, and it feels like a breezyfall day. I take pictures and sendthem to my grandsons to reas-sure them that Yiayia is okay. Idon’t tell them that the BrazosRiver to my south has crestedand a mandatory evacuation hasbeen ordered; that Harvey ismoving north and east; that peo-ple are being rescued even asthe sun dries their floodedhomes; that bodies of the missingare being recovered. I call myKoumbara in Alexandria, LA tocheck on them as the stormmoves in their direction.

Tropical Storm Irma is in theAtlantic.

It’s Thursday. I have seriouscabin fever, so I take a walkaround the neighborhood. I won-der how far I will get. At thefoot of my drive is today’s Hous-ton Chronicle. The headlines areno surprise – grim statistics forrescues, recoveries, power out-ages, fires, new floods and evac-uations. This thing is relentless.I walk down the street and visitwith two neighbors whoemerged from the storm un-scathed. Someone has lined up

three plastic jack-o-lanterns tocatch water, a primitive watergauge. In their wildest dreams,kids will never get this muchHalloween candy. At the corner,I am confronted by a sight I didnot expect. The street is underat least eight inches of water,down from much more if thewater marks on the drivewaysare any indication. Three heli-copters circle above me. I followthe path I used to take with mydog, and all I see are more flood-ed streets and people clearingdebris. But everyone stops tochat, to check on one another.Natural disasters do that to peo-ple. They bring us to our knees,and then they raise us to levelsof decency and kindness, nomatter race, religion, ethnicity,age, gender. I hope you’re seeingthat on TV, too.

Irma has been upgraded to aCat 4 Hurricane.

It’s been a week. The waterhas receded in the neighborhood.My supermarket has restockedshelves but rations milk andeggs. We drive into Houston,and if I didn’t know what Iknow, Hurricane Harvey neverhappened. Streets are dry; thereare no fallen tree limbs; peopleare riding bikes and walkingdogs. Nothing but sunshine. Andthen we turn a corner into thetwilight zone. Traffic lights areflashing. Front lawns look likegiant dumpsters. People wearingboots and gloves are standingwith hands on hips, bewildered,robotically dragging their livesout to the esplanades.

It’s been a week, and eachday I have cried a little – for thedevastating losses, for the un-flinching heroism, for the un-paralleled generosity, for theendless frustration, for the over-whelming sadness, for the un-surpassed dignity.

Today, I baked bread for myneighborhood firefighters as athank you, and my graduate as-sistant gave birth to a healthybaby boy. Welcome to Houston,Henry.

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Volunteer Kyle Denison assists Rosemarie Carpenter after her rescue from the Harvey floodingin Orange, Texas.

Men check on a boat storage facility that was damaged by Hurricane Harvey in Rockport.

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By Dennis Menos

Every form of human activity,whether social, commercial, orgovernmental, has a “leader” –someone who is in charge andresponsible for establishingoverall policy and ensuring thatit is carried out. In an Orthodoxparish, this authority rests withits presiding priest; at a univer-sity with its President; in a com-mercial enterprise with its chiefoperating officer; etc.

The Orthodox Church doesnot have “a leader” responsiblefor overseeing the entireChurch. Its leadership is sharedby the Ecumenical Patriarch andthe Primates of the Auto-cephalous (self-governing)Churches that collectively makeup Orthodoxy. The EcumenicalPatriarch is merely one of thePrimates. Though respected byhis fellow Primates and honoredwith the title of “first amongequals,” he has no power or au-thority over any of the Auto-cephalous Churches other thanhis own. Each AutocephalousChurch is independent of allothers, and its Primate is free ofany external authority.

Needless to say, the currentstructure makes it extremely dif-ficult for the Orthodox Churchto fulfill its worldwide missionand to offer solutions to the nu-merous global crises (atheism,poverty, hostility from RadicalIslam, etc.) that confrontmankind in the modern era. Thefragmentation of its structurealso constrains the Church fromactively promoting the longoverdue goal of reconciliationwith other Christian Churchesand denominations.

It is and would be wrong toattribute this admittedly difficultsituation to the concept of Au-tocephaly alone. Autocephalymay be responsible for causingthe fragmentation of the onceunified Orthodox Church into anumber of self-governingChurches, but there were alsomany ethnic and cultural factorsthat contributed to the desire ofseveral Orthodox Churches tobe self-governed.

Autocephaly did not make itsappearance in the OrthodoxChurch until the 15th Century.Prior to that time the entire Or-thodox East consisted of four Pa-triarchates (Constantinople, An-tioch, Alexandria, andJerusalem), each with responsi-bility for a particular geographicarea and with decisions affect-ing all being made at Church-wide Ecumenical Councils.

Over time, however, as Chris-tianity spread into the MiddleEast, the Balkans, the Ukraine,and the territory that is nowRussia, additional OrthodoxChurches came into being. Ini-tially, these Churches operatedunder the jurisdiction of the Ec-umenical Patriarchate. But as

the power and influence ofByzantium began to decline, es-pecially after the fall of Constan-tinople to the Ottomans, thenew Churches sought to en-hance their own protection bydeclaring themselves to be self-governing and free of the juris-diction of the Ecumenical Patri-archate. Constantinople wasopposed to this development, ofcourse, but being powerless tostop it, ultimately agreed. In duetime, the other Eastern Patriar-chates of Antioch, Alexandria,and Jerusalem, likewise agreed.

The Church of Russia was thefirst to seek autocephaly, afterbeing under the jurisdiction ofthe Ecumenical Patriarchate forwell over 400 years. As addi-tional Churches sought and ob-tained autocephaly in subse-quent years, its impact onOrthodoxy was unmistakable.Eastern Orthodoxy ceased to beone unified Church but had be-come a confederation of four-teen Autocephalous Churches.The structure was probably ap-

propriate for that era, but cer-tainly is not suitable for address-ing the problems of the modern

world.The time has come for the

Orthodox East to develop the ca-

pability for addressing the issuesthat confront it as one body ofChrist (rather than fourteen)and to begin acting as oneChurch, with a single purpose,and one voice. Changing the sta-tus quo will not be easy, for itwill require the cooperation andpartnership of the Primates andhierarchy of all AutocephalousChurches, many of whom mightstill be influenced by parochial-ism and be opposed to change.But the goal of providing theChurch with a mechanism forestablishing Pan-Orthodox pol-icy and ensuring that it is carriedout is of the utmost importance.

Establishing a Pan-OrthodoxCouncil, a permanent body ofOrthodox hierarchs, is the firstabsolute need. Meeting annu-ally, perhaps on the island ofPatmos, the Council shouldserve as the Church’s senior pol-icy making organization, re-sponsible for resolving issues ofOrthodox-wide concern.

At a future date, the Ortho-dox Church will require also the

services of a Pan-Orthodox Pa-triarch to ensure that the poli-cies recommended by the Pan-Orthodox Council are carriedout. Selection of the Pan-Ortho-dox Patriarch should be fromthe members of the Pan-Ortho-dox Council, thus affording anopportunity to any Church Pri-mate or hierarch, regardless ofethnicity, to assume the leader-ship role of the OrthodoxChurch. Perhaps as in the caseof Pan-Orthodox Council, thePan-Orthodox Patriarch shouldmaintain his headquarters onthe island of Patmos.

The proposals above may bedifficult to realize. But, unlessthe necessary instrumentalitiesfor establishing and sustainingOrthodox unity are placed intoeffect soon, worldwide Ortho-doxy will continue to flounderand be powerless to fulfill itsworldwide mission.

Dennis Menos is the author ofseveral books and a writer onOrthodox and Hellenic issues.

The Serious Need for Unity and Pan-Orthodox Leadership Today

In this file photo, Orthodox Patriarchs at the historic Holy andGreat Council before celebrating Vespers of Pentecost in Her-aklion, on the island of Crete.

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By Stavros T. Stavridis

Herbert Adams Gibbons, aspecial correspondent of theChristian Science Monitor,wrote a series of news articlesoutlining the situation in Asia Mi-nor. His accounts rallied theSeattle City Council and the localGreek-American community topass a resolution urging theHarding Administration to useits influence on the Kemalists tohalt the deportation and mas-sacre of Greeks domiciled alongthe shores of the Black Sea.

An article titled “TurkishAtrocities Agitate Seattle. CityCouncil Calls on National Gov-ernment to Use Influence in Di-rection of Humanity appeared inthe July 10, 1922 of the Monitor.The news story was sent on July3 by a special correspondentfrom Seattle. This article will bedivided into two parts with thefirst section briefly outlining Gib-bons’ articles and finally quotingthe resolution in full.

Herbert Adams Gibbons’ Ar-ticles

Gibbons wrote his news arti-cles from various locations inAsia Minor. They were publishedsome four weeks later or so andmailed them back to the Monitorin Boston, MA in order to avoidpress censorship imposed by Al-lied and Turkish military author-ities in Constantinople, Smyrna,and Trebizond. He wrote manyarticles from April to July 1922before returning to the US. Someof his published news stories car-ried the following headlines:

1. “Greeks Firm for Anatolia

Campaign” May 17, (written atAidin, Asia Minor on April 17);

2. “Turks Not Getting ManyRecruits for Anatolia Campaign”May 23 (written at AfionKarahissar on April 22), “GreeksSteadily Extending Hold on AsiaMinor” May 29 (written at EskiShehr on April 30);

3. “Greeks Anxious for Kemal-ists to attack lines. “Mr. GibbonsSays Troops are Confident theywould be Victorious in Asia Mi-nor” June 6 (written at Head-quarters of 11th Division, GreekArmy in Asia Minor near Biled-chik on May 5);

4. “Anti-Kemalist FeelingGrowing even in Turkey. Mr. Gib-bons Says Leaders in Constan-tinople Express Opinion Openly”June 20 (written in Constantino-ple on May 15);

5. “Kemalist Policy of Exter-mination Deliberate Plan. Mr.Gibbons Says Massacres of Chris-tians are Repugnant to ManyMuhammadans” June 29 (writ-ten at Trebizond on May 21);

6. “Turks at Batum WorkingClosely with Bolsheviki. Mr. Gib-bons Says Large Quantities ofSupplies for Army are Being Un-loaded on the Quays” (writtenat Trebizond on May 28).

7. “Turks Persecute Greek In-habitants of Anatolian Port.Protests Against Policy of Exter-mination of Christians Prove ofLittle Avail.” May 29 (by cablefrom Monitor Bureau).

A brief explanation will be of-fered on the news headingsabove. The first three items re-late to Gibbons’ visit to the AsiaMinor front to observe the mili-

tary situation showing theGreeks readiness to engage anddefeat the Kemalists. These ac-counts convey a sense of Greekconfidence and ability to main-tain its power in Asia Minor. Initem four, it states that Turkishopinion in Constantinople wasdivided and that the city con-tained a mixed population. Thelast three items discuss the de-portation and suffering of theGreeks in the Trebizond region.Prominent Turks such as the gov-ernor and mayor of Trebizond

were disgusted and horrified atthe extermination policy of theKemalist Government towardsthe Greeks. These outspokenTurkish officials would have beenreplaced immediately with indi-viduals who were prepared toimplement Kemalist policyagainst the Christian minorities.However, some protested to noavail.

At that time Britain, France,

Italy, and the United States dis-cussed the issue of dispatchingan allied commission to KemalistTurkey to investigate AmericanNear East Relief eyewitness ac-counts of the deportation andmassacre of Greeks and Armeni-ans from the coastal regions ofthe Black Sea into the Anatolianinterior. The French got the otherpowers to agree that an alliedcommission should also proceedto Greek occupied territory.Nothing came of these alliedcommissions and the major pow-ers approached the Committeeof the International Red Cross(IRC) in Geneva to undertakethe atrocity inquiries in theGreek and Turkish occupiedzones. The IRC mission nevereventuated. It might be arguedthat such news stories read bythe Greek Americans and SeattleCity Council would have spurredthem into action.

Seattle City Council Resolu-tion

The resolution passed by theSeattle City Council:

“That the Turkish outrages inAsia Minor are making them-selves felt even unto the far west-ern coast of the United States isevidenced by a resolution unan-imously adopted by the SeattleCity Council yesterday.

“The resolution was intro-duced by Philip Tindall of the ju-diciary and department effi-ciency bureau of the legislativedepartment of this city, and insubstantiation of his statementsof the conditions in Asia Minorcalling for the resolution. Mr.Tindall quoted from the special

articles by Herbert Adams Gib-bons, PhD, which are appearingregularly in The Christian Sci-ence Monitor.

“The text of the resolution fol-lows:

“Whereas the Greek born res-idents of Seattle in meeting as-sembled on Sunday June 26,1922 did in the name of civiliza-tion and Christianity petition theHon. Warren G. Harding Presi-dent of the United States thatour Government exert its influ-ence to bring about a cessationof the massacre and deportationby Turks of the Christian inhabi-tants of Asia Minor.

“Now therefore be it Resolvedby the Seattle City Council thatthis body does hereby give its in-dorsement to said petition andurges on behalf of the people ofSeattle that the national Govern-ment lend the weight of its in-fluence to any pressure whichmay be brought directly or indi-rectly upon the Turkish Govern-ment with a view to inducing itto put an end to the atrocitieswhich are being perpetratedupon Christian peoples living un-der its jurisdiction.”

It should be noted that Tin-dall served as a Councillor dur-ing the period 1920-32 and wasactively involved with mattersdealing with the Seattle Depart-ment of Lighting.

In conclusion, the Seattle CityCouncil and the Greek-Americancommunity roared loudly but thedeafening silence of the HardingAdministration did not assist theplight of the Greeks in Asia Mi-nor.

The Resolution Passed by the Seattle City Council on Asia Minor

The Seattle City Council

and the Greek-American

community urged

the Harding

Administration to

use its influence

to halt the deportation

and massacre of Greeks.

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tonome Intellekt (Independent[sic] Mind) co-authored byKotzias under the supervision ofthe Head of Ideological Propa-ganda of the regime of the for-mer head of the East GermanSoviet regime, Erich Honecker.

“And yet the judges in a par-ody of a trial ruled that he(Kotzias) was not even an ad-mirer of totalitarian regimes!”an incredulous Vasilakis added.

Vasilakis said that, “The courtwas based on the fact he is aminister and had to satisfy him,”as public figures in Greece cansue for defamation and aren’tas subject to jokes, mockery oreven outright ridicule in the me-dia, although many don’t go tocourt.

“Our argument is that it isour right to publish a text thatincludes political characteriza-tions, that Kotzias has alwaysbeen a political persona,” headded.

“This decision and evenmore the effort to carry it out,for example with the confisca-tion of our accounts and of therevenues from the news agency,sends a threatening resonantmessage to all. They are perse-cutors of the freedom of speech,they want to subdue the mediaand practice propaganda infavour of the SYRIZA govern-ment, and if this is not possibleto muzzle the media,” headded.

TV STATICKotzias serves SYRIZA which

tried to limit the number of pri-vate TV licenses to four beforebeing blocked by a court and ascritics said Prime MinisterAlexis Tsipras and his partywanted to control as much aspossible the dissemination of in-formation.

Kotzias declined to be inter-viewed by The National Heraldand his ministry sent in re-sponse a letter from his attorneyto The Financial Times whichhad written that the freezing ofthe magazine’s accounts hadmore serious implications be-cause, “Fears for the indepen-dence of the Greek judicial sys-tem are mounting,” over thecourt decision.

“The ruling in favour ofNikos Kotzias has drawn sharpcriticism from academics andpublic figures, who say it vio-lates EU law on freedom of ex-

pression. It also highlightsbroader concern over perceivedinterference in the justice sys-tem by the leftwing SYRIZAgovernment,” it added.

The Foreign Minister shotback that the article “spreadsunprecedented lies, (ones)aimed at discrediting the Greekgovernment” and said the inter-national media outlet “lied”about the fact that Kotzias’ sidedid not comment on the allega-tions.

His lawyer’s statement alsosaid that the newspaper failedto corroborate the charges

made against Kotzias and ig-nored repeated rulings by Greekcourts that had been made andthat the reporter had “receiveda relevant letter from Mr.Kotzias’ attorney, Ioannis Mat-zouranis. The false statementthat Mr. Kotzias ‘declined tocomment’ violates every rule ofjournalistic ethics”.

The statement claimed thatthe publishers refused to apol-ogize, “While at the same timedemanding, through various ar-ticles in the press, that the courtdecisions not be implemented.It basically demands that the

said couple remain above thelaw, that it may defame as itdeems fit and abolish every no-tion of rule of law.”

TURNABOUTThe court issued a unani-

mous 5-0 verdict after PenelopeZontanou, the Supreme Courtrapporteur, who originally calledfor the case to be dismissed in2016 after arguing Kotzias’ claimviolated European human rightslaw and the Greek constitution,reversed her position without ex-planation.

The Appeals Court rulingsaid, “Even though it was proven

that the plaintiff (i.e. Kotzias)was a founding member of theGreek Communist Party" … "isit [not] proven from the docu-ments that the defendants havesubmitted to the court that headmired the stated absolutistregime nor that he advertisedit,” the Greek-Australian news-paper Neos Kosmos wrote.

The next step for the publish-ers is taking the case to the Eu-ropean Court of Human Rights,which in the past has twice ruledin favour of Vasilakis in similarcases concerning freedom ofspeech cases, the paper noted.

Vasilakis said that whileKotzias aimed at his magazinethat “SYRIZA tried to control thebig press groups and TV chan-nels. It failed in the channel de-partment because its law wasannulled as anti-constitutionalby the Council of State. In thistrial, the government was rep-resented by the lawyer GianniMatzouranis,” who representedKotzias.

Kotzias later had anotherlawyer send a letter of warningto Professor Thanos Veremis,one of Greece’s most notedscholars with international

renown who said in the Finan-cial Times article that, “(TheSYRIZA government) is goingdown the same road of extremepopulism as Poland and Hun-gary, in this case to to offset theeconomic concessions Greecehas made in successive bailouts,”with international creditors.

The ruling was sharply criti-cized by academics and publicfigures, who say it violates Eu-ropean Union law on freedomof expression and that Kotzias’actions in going after the maga-

zine were “unconscionable” and“vindictive,” the newspaperKathimerini reported.

“Beyond the threatened de-struction of an important publi-cation, this development deals asevere blow to the right of freespeech in Greece and to the un-inhibited dissemination ofknowledge and exchange ofideas, which are essential pre-requisites of an open and demo-cratic society,” the academicsstatement added.

Vasilakis delivered a wither-ing blast at the Greek courts andprosecutors and, he said,“Judges with the exception of afew, try to “exonerate” the politi-cian, that is they do the oppositeof what happens in the U.S.A.”

He added that, “The lawsconcerning the press that werepassed in the late 1990’s becameorgans of blackmailing and ter-rorizing of journalists, especiallyby politicians. Freedom ofspeech has become freedom ofchoosing a political protector,”in Greece.

“We did not pursue this be-cause our main issue was notmoney,” he said. “The major rea-son was freedom of speech. We

fight for freedom of speech,democracy and justice. Werefuse to pay for the raping ofour freedom. We denounce therape of freedom”.

He suggested there is no realfreedom of speech in Greece,unlike in the United Stateswhere public figures are fairgame. He added: “What is un-thinkable in the country of theFirst Amendment is commonpractice in the country wheredemocracy was once born” -Greece.

Publisher Blasts Defamation Verdict, says SYRIZA Muzzling MediaContinued from page 1

Τοp: The cover of the Athens Review of Books from February 2015.Right: Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.

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