http://www.anglohellenicleague.org/ This is a link to the Anglo-Hellenic League mentioned on page 175. If you click on the About Us button this will come up;

History of the League

The Anglo-Hellenic League was founded in the aftermath of the 1912-13 Balkan Wars in order to counter anti-Greek propaganda in the United Kingdom. Dedicated to promoting Anglo-Greek understanding and friendship, the League has a long history of charitable and cultural work. After the first World War, through John Gennadius, a co-founder and Honorary President, the League took a leading role in establishing the Koraes Chair of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature at King’s College London. During the Second World War the League raised funds for the starving Greek population and for the Greek Navy and the Merchant Marine. In the immediate post war years the League gave assistance to a children’s home, a hospital in Athens and to war-ravaged villages in remote parts of Greece and gave similar help to the southern Ionian Islands after the 1953 earthquakes. In 1979/80 the League raised over £80,000 towards the ‘Save the Acropolis’ Appeal. In 1986 it established the Runciman Award, an annual prize given for a book or books on some aspect of the Hellenic scene.

The myth remains in England. People are being blinded by romance of a people lond dead and the imposters of today are manipulated by the lies of Byron, Shelley, Voltaire, Hugo, etc. But the manipulated take advantage of the assumption that they are descended from the ancient Greeks. This is insanity that has long ago tilted any scale of measure.


To further view this insanity by the inhabitants of modern greece click on this link and read from page 8 and on; http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id= ... lt#PPA8,M1

This was published by the American Hellenic Society, also mentioned on page 175, in 1919. I barely stomached most of it.

This kind of thing only encourages the Greeks. I don't think they care particularly where the information comes from - if someone is trying to revive the glory of ancient Greece - through them - they will take it and not ask any questions.

The assumption is of course false, but it was used nonetheless to justify the creation of a Modern Greece, and has been used, ever since by the Greek State to legitimize white-washing its landscape of any and all diversity - and rewriting who was there and how they felt.

It takes a very sobre and honest Greek to reject what Western Europeans were saying about Greece - to actually set the record straight. Those who try - are accused of High Treason.

It does explain why they are so sensitive about their origins.

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You mean origins like this Paul.