4 “Helleno-Romaic dilemma” in Leigh Fermor, 106ff; Holden, 30–6; Finlay, 12; Woodhouse (Modern), 11–12
5 Percy Bysshe Shelley trumpeted: “We are all Greeks” and called Athens “a divine work.” Lord Byron, Goethe, and Victor Hugo were some of the leading philhellenes.
6 Mateos, 94, 162; Brewer, 5; Kalyvas, 44; J. E. Miller, 3, 13
7 Close (Origins), 3; Clogg (Concise), 87
8 Rummel, “Turkey’s Genocidal Purges,” 233
9 Pallis, A. A. “The Greek Census of 1928,” The Geographical Journal, Vol. 73, No. 6 (June 1929), 543-548; Kayser, Bernard, Geographie Humaine de la Grèce. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1964 in Holden, 135
10 Campbell, 127–133; Holden, 136–9; Woodhouse (Modern), 212–15
11 Campbell, 150–1
12 Clogg (Parties), 12; Holden, 142
13 George Enislides, interview, 4/2012
14 Antonis Drossopoulos, interview, 5/31/2012
15 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyOIgzVKLT4; Christopher Xenopoulos Janus, “Filotimo: The most untranslatable and unique Greek virtue,” https://www.helleniccomserve.com/filotimo.html
16 He also instilled a hatred for Thomas Bruce, the infamous Lord Elgin, who notoriously removed priceless friezes, statuary, and other precious artifacts.
17 Plato’s Apology, https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/plato-dialogues-vol-2#lf0131-02_div_137; In Plato’s Apology, “gadfly” was the term Plato said Socrates used to describe himself. Being criticized in a CIA document as a “gadfly” and in other US government documents as a “dangerous gadfly” gave EPD great pleasure. CIA, 2/19/1972
18 Ancient Rome, more than Ancient Greece, shaped the ideological thinking of the American founding fathers. Bailyn, 24–6; as in Europe, private American citizens, not their government, took the lead in embracing the cause of Greek independence.
19 P.J. Vatikiotis, Ch. 15-6; John V. Kofas, Authoritarianism in Greece: The Metaxas Regime. Boulder: East European Monographs, 1983
20 Nalmpantis, 50; Woodhouse (Modern), 232–3
2: RESISTING THE GERMANS
1 Woodhouse (Modern), 237; Lawlor, 171; Hondros, 46
2 Ilias-Tembos, 306, http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/10846/2/288043_vol2.pdf
3 Prime minister’s personal telegram to General Wavell, 5/1/1941: “We have paid our debt of honour with far less loss than I feared…” Churchill War Rooms, London
4 AP, Ottawa Citizen, 4/21/1941
5 Hondros, 50; Mazower (Inside), 15–19
6 Jenkins, 735, indicates “romantic monarchist.” Churchill’s commitment to King George was more “tentative.”
7 Mazower (Inside), 16–18, DGFP, D, XII, no. 409, 946–947; Hondros, 264; Keegan, 157; Ilias-Tembos, op. cit., 387
8 “The Greeks are what we were: they are what we shall become again,” Schiller, “On Naïve and Sentimental Poetry,” 84, in Germans and Greeks, chapter 5. https://www.coursehero.com/file/24291223/GoldenCH5-1doc/; Beiser, 186
9 Keegan, 156
10 Beiser, 186
11 Editorial, Vradyni, June 2, 1941
12 Mazower, 86, citing fn 5
13 Gerolymatos (Guerrilla), 189; Gerolymatos (Red), 47; Rigopoulas, 25
14 Hondros, 101
15 Macveagh in Clogg (“Cousins”), 107; Hondros, 52–3; Iatrides (ed.) (MacVeigh), passim.
16 EAM (Ethniko Apeleftherotikon Metopo), National Liberation Front; ELAS (Ellinikos Laikos Apeleftherotikos Stratos), Greek People’s Liberation Army); EDES (Ethnikos Dimokratikos Eleftherotikon Ellinikos Syndesmos), National Republican Greek League
17 MI6 (Secret Intelligence Service) and MI9 (Escape and Evasion)
18 EPD anecdotes are supplemented by examples in Bobotinos’s book and interviews with Leonarda Lamprianidou (Ivanof’s niece), 6/2012 and 12/2016.
19 Beaton, 169
20 Fleischer et al. (ed.), 3; Professor Panayotis Soldatos, interview and email, 9/2011; British Embassy Athens letter to J. Bobotinos, M.B.E, 2/26/1952, praising how OAG’s “gallant work…contributed to the success of the Allied cause.” Royal Decree of Greek government’s official recognition of OAG, 3/18/1950
21 The 11th Day: Crete 1941
22 Drossopoulos interview, 5/31/2012 and Enislides interview, 5/30/2012
