Kidnapped in Macedonia
When Skopje recently abducted the Star of Vergina and attached it to its flag, it was in effect declaring for a Greater Slavic Macedonia.
Brenda Marder
Brenda Marder, former Archivist of the American Farm School and Book Editor of The Athenian is the author of the School history 'Stewards of the Land', distributed by Columbia University Press, New York, 1979.
Francis Walton at the Gennadeion
On November 15, 1978, the Ministry of Culture and Science invested Francis R. Walton with the Order of the Phoenix, in recognition of his contribution to the cultural life of Greece.
The Corfu Incident
Italian troops were already crossing the Albanian border when on the morning of October 28, 1940, Italy’s diplomatic representative in Athens delivered his government’s ultimatum that Greece capitulate. The Greek nation’s rejection of Mussolini’s ultimatum, an occasion annually observed on October 28 as a national holiday, did not find the country unprepared. It had been preceded by several provocative acts which forewarned the Greek government and eventually led, less than two decades later, to the Italian invasion of Greece. The first of these provocations was the 1923 bombardment and occupation of Corfu, an incident crucial not only to Greece but to world history, as it was the first test case of its type for the League of Nations.
A Unique Institution
Early last fall the students and staff of the American Farm School gathered in front of the main gate to greet a bus carrying a group of Cypriot refugees. As the bus approached, the girls and boys talked and joked, delighted to be released from their school routine. Among the staff there was hardly a face that was not taut with emotion: many of them had arrived as refugees from Asia Minor at these very gates in the tumultuous years after 1921.
