GREECE: If We Hold Fast . . .

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In one sense, that choice cannot be truly free. For Greece, like her neighbors already in the Russian orbit, must look to outer friends for help and understanding. To those friends, as to his countrymen, the Archbishop of Greece might say with Thucydides:

Judging freedom to be happiness and courage to be the creator of freedom, it remains for you not to fear any risks, but to rival what these men have done.

* Patriarch Gregorios was seized in Constantinople by the Turks during the wars of 1821, hanged in front of the Patriarchate.

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