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Prime Minister, how do you look at Greece? Greece, during this crisis, has had a change of government, but it's in a position now, since you have the military power on the island, where it would be almost too humiliating for Greece to just give in to you. How do you look at the Greek position? Well, if they looked at their foreign problems, international problems, in a realistic way, they shouldn't have a feeling of defeat But unfortunately, they don't look at these matters in a realistic, from a realistic and contemporary angle. I have repeatedly said recently that they cherish these memories of the old Byzantine history. They have their, what they call, ideals of Hellenism, of material or spiritual, ennosis and so forth. Now, any nation in the world who cherished such dreams of past historic glory would not find rest in the present-day world. I gave the example the other day. Suppose Turkey, which has had a much more recent history of an empire, had similar dreams of annexing the old territories. Where would Turkey have ended today? We would have been on very bad terms with all our neighbours. Suppose, take Britain, suppose the British wanted to revive , to restore their empire. Where would they have ended in the present-day world? I think that if the Greeks realise the necessities of the age we are all living in and appreciate that this is not the age of restoring emp ires, but this is the age where all empires have to end, are ending. And then they could come to terms with our present-day world, with the realities of the region, and they could accommodate themselves to friendship with Turkey. After all, Mr. Mavros himself said recently that Greece and Turkey are condemned to live in friendship.