O C V ΓΡΑΦΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ Bringing the news ΤΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΜΟΥ to generations of ΑΠΟ ΤΟ 1915 The National Herald Greek- NEWS c v A wEEKly GREEK-AmERICAN PUBlICATION www.thenationalherald.com VOL. 15, ISSUE 767 June 23-29, 2012 $1.50 New Prime Minister A. Samaras is Faced with Impossible Task Banker Is New Minister Of The Investors Economy

Bancorp By Andy Dabilis To Acquire TNH Staff Writer – After two elections and bitter political feuding be- Marathon tween parties, ’s head , a 61- year-old American-trained econ- SHORT HiLLS, NJ (PR omist, was sworn in as ’s NEWSWIRE) Investors Bancorp, 13th Prime Minister since the Inc. and Marathon Banking Cor- fall of the military junta in 1974, poration announce a definitive faced with what seemed like merger agreement under which Mission Impossible: he will Investors Bancorp will acquire oversee an unlikely coalition Marathon Banking Corporation with the PASOK Socialists and for $135 million in cash consid- tiny Democrati c Left who said eration. they will support him, but not Marathon Banking Corpora- participate in a government that tion is the U.S. subsidiary of Pi- is already submerged in a deep- raeus Bank S.A. and the parent ening economic crisis. corporation of Marathon Na- Samaras, elected on a plat- tional Bank of , a fed- form that included a vow to try erally chartered commercial to renegotiate with international bank headquartered in Astoria, lenders a set of harsh austerity NY with $902 million in assets, measures that he supported and $783 million in deposits, and 13 signed – after previously oppos- full-service branches in the New ing them – has to try to buy time York metropolitan area. Upon to implement more harsh con- completion of this transaction, ditions, including the ffiring o Investors Bancorp will have 22 EUROKINISSI 150,000 state workers, privatiz- New York branches, representing New Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, left, during his cussed. from the Greek Socialist PASOK ing state enterprises, and open- 22% of its total branch network, meeting with the heads of his two minority coalition partners party, right, and the smaller 's , 2nd ing so-called closed professions, totaling approximately $1.3 bil- and the new leadership of the Minister of Finance to prepare for left, the new Minister of Finance, banker Vassilis Rapanos, and lion in deposits. the Eurogroup meeting, where the issue of Greece is to be dis- former Minister of Finance , in Athens June 21. Continued on page 9 Kevin Cummings, President and CEO of Investors Bancorp, Inc. commented, “We are excited about the acquisition of Marathon Banking Corporation TNH Hosts Event for Congressman Sarbanes Andrew Sarris, and its subsidiary Marathon Na- tional Bank of New York. Film Critic, 83 Marathon is a highly regarded NEW YORK – Congressman John ticipated in an informal discus- we stand by him.” dynamic people to represent commercial bank whose fran- Sarbanes (D-MD) visited New sion with the guests in Dia- He acknowledged the special them and express their interests, chise will continue the transfor- York for a special event hosted mataris’ office, everyone was di- guests, which included the Con- and to be role models for its By Michael Powell mation of Investors into a full by TNH Publisher-Editor Antonis rected to the TNH Hall of Fame, suls General of Greece and youth.” The New York Times service commercial bank. Addi- H. Diamataris. One of the gath- the second floor lobby whose in New York, George Il- Sarbanes took the opportunity tionally, this transaction is a con- ering’s purposes was to raise walls are adorned with images of iopoulos and Koula Sophianou, to thank Diamataris not only for Andrew Sarris, one of the na- tinuation of our strategy of ex- funds – it is an election year, after the Greek and Cypriot-Americans respectively, Aphrodite Skeadas, hosting the event, but for provid- tion’s most influential film critics pansion into the New York all – but the congressman was and Philhellenes, who have the national Philoptochos Presi- ing the community with quality and a champion of auteur theory, markets and more than doubles also excited to meet his fellow graced the covers of the Greek- dent, Federation of Hellenic So- reporting about Greece and the which holds that a director’s our existing New York branch Greek-Americans and Cypriot- language Ethnikos Kirix’ maga- cieties of Greater New York, offi- community. The audience, also voice is central to great filmmak- network.” Americans in New York, to share zines. cers Elias Tsekerides and Petros quite worried about Greece, was ing, died on Wednesday in Man- Paul Stathoulopoulos, Presi- his thoughts with them about the Diamataris welcomed the Galatoulas, prominent attorney hushed as he acknowledged that hattan. He was 83. dent and CEO of Marathon challenges facing Greece and guests and told them “John Sar- Christos Stratakis, and educator “I struggle every day in Washing- His wife, the film critic Molly Banking Corporation, who will America, and describe some ini- banes wanted to meet you, but Stella Kokolis. ton, trying to combat the emerg- Haskell, said the cause was com- be joining the Investors Bank tiatives that he has undertaken we also want to meet him, be- Diamataris declared “the com- ing negative stereotypes of plications of an infection devel- for the community’s behalf. cause we want to thank him, and munity needs no more than to Continued on page 2 After the affable legislator par- encourage him, and to tell him have competent, educated, and Continued on page 4 Continued on page 6 Troubled Monk Apparently Greek Labor Commits Suicide in Arizona In 19th-20th

By Theodore Kalmoukos When he pulled into the Century U.S. Monastery parking lot he was FLORENCE, AZ – At the St. An- met by a night watchman monk. thony’s Monastery in Florence, He drove a short distance away. By Steve Frangos AZ, a 27 year-old novice monk The watchman drove his car to- took his life with a gun on the ward the area where Nevins had In the 1880s, the largest em- dawn of June 11. parked. At some point, Nevins igration from Greece in modern Scott Nevins was a novice for shot himself according to police times began. The United States six years at St. Anthony, one of accounts, and was flown by a was then experiencing a major the 21 Monasteries established helicopter to an area hospital, industrial expansion, for which by Elder Ephraim, the former where he died. An autopsy was millions of new laborers were abbot of the Philotheou scheduled to be performed. needed. Between the 1880s and Monastery on Mount Athos. The Monastery belongs ec- 1920s, the Greeks were the very From Modesto, CA Nevins was clesiastically and canonically to last of the Europeans to arrive in a convert to Orthodoxy. He had the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese response to that open call for la- left the Monastery 15 months of America through the Metrop- bor. Demographically, the great- ago in the middle of the night olis of San Francisco under Met- est concentration of Greeks lived and went to Oregon and en- ropolitan Gerasimos. TNH was and worked West of the Missis- rolled in college. He returned unable to reach Archbishop sippi river until the end of WW the Monastery armed with two Demetrios or Nevins’ parents for I. The West was then a dynamic guns and a knife on June 10. comment. area needing a seemingly endless The authorities have not es- supply of workers for factories, tablished a motive why Nevins mines, railroads, road building, For subscription: too k his life or why he returned TNH/COSTAS BEJ and numerous other types of in- 718.784.5255 to the Monastery armed with Honoring A Revolutionary Giant dustrial enterprises and efforts. [email protected] two guns and a knife. In e-mails For those Greek-Americans that he exchanged with Abbot Metropolitan of Chios, Markos, paid a short visit to New York where he was given a warm welcome whose forefathers arrived during Paisios and another monk, Fr. by the large and successful Chian-American community. The metropolitan also visited the offices that period, many have heard Ilarion, Nevins wrote that he of TNH where he met the publisher-editor and staff. Above, the metropolitan unveils a painting of tales of those initial years of vio- the Konstantonis Kanaris, one of the most important heroes of the Revolution of 1821, commis- Continued on page 3 sioned by Markos Marinakis, left. Evaggelos Kavvadas kai Evaggelos Kyriakopoulos look on. Continued on page 7 2 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, JUNE 23-29, 2012

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George’s love of life, com- groom, Lampros Kanellopoulos, a former chief pilot and general man- http://www.nationalhellenic- mitment to his work, and hu- ager of Olympic Airways, along with his wife Eleni and his sister Elina museum.org/ manitarian spirit were an inspi- Rigas, were in attendance. LEFT: The happy couple exiting the church. ration to all who met him. The n JUNE 14-JULY 1 Foundation’s mission is to pro- MANHATTAN – Yes! It's true! mote, foster, and advance the Anthoula Katsimatides just professional pursuits of young booked a role in an off-Broad- artists, to support cancer re- Marathon Bank to Be Taken over By Investors Bancorp, Inc. way play! "I feel so blessed to search and to support Improve- be part of such an incredible ment in the management of Continued from page 1 cast & crew!" she declared. Mur- globlastoma brain tumors. Par- der in the First by Dan Gordon ticipating artists include sculp- Board of Directors commented, at 59E59 Theatres in Manhat- tures by Panagiotos Marinis, Ste- “Investors has demonstrated a tan. The play will run through lios Panagiotopoulos, and Nikos strong commitment to the Greek Jul. 1. From the company that Floros, photographs by Meinrad community and to the commer- brought you Poetic License Hofer, Sissy Morfi,and Jason cial real estate market. We are comes Murder in the First, in- Homa. Painters exhibiting in- pleased to form this partnership spired by a compelling true clude Russell Bush, Demetra Pas- with a bank that cares about story of the case that ultimately siou and Pelagia Kyriazi. The their communities and can offer led to the closing of Alcatraz - evening will include a poetry Marathon National Bank’s cus- the most notorious correctional reading by Polys Kyriakou. For tomers enhanced and expanded institution in U.S. history. 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Elder Ephraim, founder of St. Anthony’s Monastery in Florence, AZ wearing his epitrachilio (stole) with the Monastery’s Abbot Paisios. Troubled Monk Left St. Anthony’s, Came Back Armed, Presumably Killed Himself

Continued from page 1 as novices or gusts come of their year before he left he was in own free will and leave of their contact with some people who had been threatened by other own free will. No one is forced were acquaintances and friends monks including elder Ephraim to be here and all monks and and he had some concerns. I re- whom he described as “charla- novices have access to a tele- member one time he h ad said tan.” phone.” to me that the white flowers in When he quickly left the Nevins replied to Ilarion: the oleanders in the Monastery’s Monastery 15 months earlier, “the elder has never threatened garden is the symbol of Sa- Nevins had left his oral retainer anyone” uhhh…you live in a tanists”. behind, among other personal fantasy world. I didn’t ask you If the Monastery notified his items. He had requested that the for your opinion as to why I left parents when they saw the signs Monastery retrieve it, but the the way I did; actually Fr. Paisios that something had changed on monk who cleaned his room told me that I was to leave with Nevins, Paisios said “we did not had thrown it away. Nevins in- nothing. Absolutely nothing; so, have a connection because they sisted to be reimbursed $4,000 I did. I didn’t have a bag in my were saying that we had stolen for it, but the Monastery offered hand. And another thing, your their child, that we had brain- to send him to an orthodontist Elder Ephraim is a complete washed him.” in and to pay to re- charlatan! He isn’t holy at all! Speaking about Nevins’ alle- place it; Nevins refused. Not at all! He is lying about gations that elder Ephraim had Nevins sent an email to Ilar- everything. The deception is un- threatened him, Paisios said “all ion stating among other things believable.” these were in his fantasy” and that “you have to pay for the re- At some point Nevins ap- he added that “Fr. Ephraim tainer. I am calling the sheriff if peared very angry and he threat- doesn’t threat nor has any intent to threat anybody.” Paisios added that Nevins “did not have any contact with the Elder who does not speak English and Scott did not speak Greek.” Paisios said that the Monastery checks prospective monks’ past to determine whether they have ever taken antidepressant drugs, at which point it does not admit them. He refuted the possibility that the Monastery watchman could have killed Nevins, maintaining that the police confirmed that Nevins had taken his own life. According to Paisios, the Monastery has 39 monks and 6 novices, 45 in total. It was built in 1995 and Paisios said “it cost 8 to 9 million dollars, which came from dona- The entrance of St. Anthony, where Scott Nevins was a novice tions.” He denied that abbot monk for six years. He allegedly committed suicide in the Ephraim from the Vatopedi Monastery’s vicinity in the early morning on June 11. Monastery of Mt. Athos has given money to the Monasteries built and controlled by Fr. Ephraim’s of Arizona. “No, No, how do these things circulate,” Paisios said. When he was re- minded about the official news announcement issued by the Vatopedi Monastery on October 9, 2008 that $2 million was given as assistance to various causes including “in ecclesiasti- cal institutions and Monasteries in America and many Eparchies of the Ecumenical Patriarchate” Paisios said “we have never asked and we have never been offered [money].” Paisios attributed how all these 21 Monasteries were es- tablished throughout the Arch- diocese within only a few years you don’t and getting a lawyer.” ened Ilarion and also elder “as a miracle” and added “we He also wrote that “I had to Ephraim and used inappropriate do not do anything secretive leave in a hurry, and I forgot my language. On April 20 he wrote [and we have not] received any retainer. I had to leave because to Ilarion: “hey worthless, dead- funds from Vatopedi. These [ru- of the immediate threat to my beat, loser, give a direct phone mors] are baseless.” personal safety. A number of the number to the All Holy and Regarding Nevins’ death, fathers, including the elder were Thrice Blessed Eminent and Metropolitan Gerasimos issued after me, and a threat against Despotic Elder of the Monastery, the following letter: my life was made. Did you even so that I can tell the person in Dear Brothers in Christ, ask elder Ephraim if he had charge what I really think about The responsibility we share threatened me? Oh, no, you just Your All Worthlessness! I truly as the ordained ministers of the know these things without hav- feel like ripping your face off of Holy Gospel is a sacred trust be- ing to ask.” your skull! I don’t know what to stowed upon us by Holy Ordi- In another email to Ilarion, do, dumba**. Help me! Hey, … nation. Our ministry is replete Nevins wrote that “elder s**t-head, ask The All Holy El- with joy and sorrow that we ex- Ephraim is a charlatan, he’s ly- der Ephraim if he feels like hav- perience with the people of God ing about being holy and being ing every tooth beaten out of his entrusted to our spiritual care. a good person. When I discov- Skull, because that’s how I feel”. It is, therefore, my paternal ered this, he threatened me and Passios told TNH “that the obligation to inform you of a I had to leave immediately, in young man was not progressing tragic event that has occurred the middle of the night, which here and I told him if he wanted within the boundaries of our is why my retainers and bap- to go back home and do some- Holy Metropolis. A young man tismal certificate were left be- thing with his life.” who had come to our Faith and hind.” As to why Nevins left, Paisios became a novice at the Holy Ilarion replied to Nevins that said “he simply couldn’t stay Monastery of St. Anthony the “please note that on the day you here. He wasn’t telling me many Great, and subsequently left here we were really con- things. We were talking fre- Monastery for unknown reasons cerned about your whereabouts quently but he was not telling last year, took his life last Mon- and safety, so I called the Sher- me the reasons that he wanted day morning at approximately iff’s office and filed a missing to stay here.” 2:45AM. Scott Nevins, 27 years person report because you Regarding Nevins’ overall be- old, had spent six years at St. didn’t leave a note nor did you havior at the Monastery, Paisios Anthony’s. Last year, after leav- inform anyone. Later that night said that “he was not talking ing the Monastery he enrolled the Sheriff’s office called and in- much, he was coming to his in a college in Oregon. In the formed me that they spoke to work but he was in another early hours of last Monday your father/mother and that world.” Paisios revealed that “on morning, Scott took his life in you left here for good. The Sher- Monday June 4, he called me an area near the monastery. iff’s deputy said you went to a and threatened me saying ‘I will The proper authorities are in- friend’s house. The morning you blow your brains with a gun.’ I vestigating this incident and we left, you were seen going to told him that it would be good will cooperate in every way nec- church, getting the elder’s bless- for him to go and see a psy- essary. In addition, the Metrop- ing and walking out the front chotherapi st. He told me that ‘I olis is conducting an investiga- gate around Liturgy time 3AM already had gone and I am well.’ tion into this matter. holding a small bag. No one Paisios is convinced that On behalf of the Holy Me- thought anything at the time, Nevins “came to the Monastery tropolis of San Francisco we but they told me about it a day to kill us and then take his own wish to extend our prayers and or two later.” life.” love to the Nevins family. May Ilarion also wrote to Nevins Paisios said that during most Christ Jesus, our Lord, God and that “the elder has never threat- of the time that Nevins was a Savior look with mercy upon the ened anyone who wanted to novice “he did not show any soul of his departed servant. leave here. All who come here signs [of peculiar behavior]. A Eternal be his memory! 4 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, JUNE 23-29, 2012

LEFT: Congressman John Sarbanes explains his position on varied issues of interest to his au- the Greek American Federation of Greater New York, and noted infertility specialist Dr. George dience including the economic situation in Greece and his program “Όλοι Μαζί,” all together. Kofinas. RiGHT: Antonis H. Diamataris, Eraklis Diamataris, Christos Kosovitas, Litsa Diamataris, To his right is host TNH Publisher-Editor Antonis H. Diamataris, ilias Tsekerides, president of John Sarbanes, Stella Kokolis, Dr. Miranta Kofinas, and Dr. George Kofinas. At TNH Headquarters, Rep. Sarbanes Vows to Make Politics Accessible

Continued from page 1 carrying the Sarbanes name.” He dent on special interests that public. noted that people sometimes have a lot of money to give… Sarbanes is building a net- Greece and Greeks. Unfortu- confuse his name with that of his and the whole institution of con- work of Greek-Americans who nately, many if not most of my father – former U.S. Senator Paul gress begins to lean in the direc- will contribute at “the grass roots colleagues see Greece through a Sarbanes (D-MD) – inadvertently tion of the special interest and donor level,” to counter what very negative lens.” He said they referring to the younger Sar- away from the public interest.” “big money” has done to the po- tend to see only the economic di- banes, though perhaps only pre- He believes that is at the root of litical system. He said “It is criti- mension and how it impacts Eu- maturely, as senator. why the public is so frustrated cal that just average people can rope and the United States. AMERiCAN CONCERNS and disillusioned with their rep- just give, five 25, 50 or maybe “They don’t see the suffering that In addition to his compassion resentatives, and that nowadays 100 dollars, to step up to begin many Greeks now face.” for Greece, Sarbanes expressed the average person does not be- to reclaim your democracy, and AN ALTERNATE NARRATiVE concern over trends in America, lieve that he or she can be heard. say we will put our money be- ON GREECE hind candidates who will fight Sarbanes said he is working for the public interest.” to counter that perception and to Sarbanes then revealed he did offer an alternative narrative. “something no politician has ever Among the things he does is “let done. I raised half a million dol- people understand there is a hu- lars and then I pledged not to manitarian crisis there, and our touch that money, until I could attitude towards Greece should recruit “a thousand people will- be one of reaching out and trying ing to give five, up to $100 dol- to support them.” lars.” Petros Galatoulas, Alex Tsoukalas, Dimitris Vekiarelis, Gerasi- The other narrative he says He said he wanted to demon- mos Stefanitsis, Giorgos iliopoulos, Consul General of Greece should be put forward reminds strate that reaching in that way in New York, Nikos Papakostantinou, Director, Greek Press and people “how important and and building such a network information office in NY, Serafeim Lazos and Eraklis Diamataris. strategic an ally Greece has been works. He wants to establish a and can continue to be if the U.S. new model and approach. ual accomplishments,” where other initiatives. invests in that relationship...par- He calls his endeavor the Greek and Cypriot-Americans ex- He says HPS is not an organi- ticularly when some of the other “Mazi Network,” and he made it cel in every field. zation; it is an idea, one that he allies in that part of the world clear that it can be activated in Second, he said, they are is taking to the community’s ac- [referring to ] seem less support of other Greek American proud of their Hellenic heritage tual organizations all over the appreciative when the chips are candidates, and for “non-Greeks and their success in preserving country. He tells them “look in- down,” and the US needs help. who are doing the right thing,” the . The third el- side yourselves. Find examples, He described the U.S.-Turkey re- regarding the community’s inter- ement, however, is the most im- particularly of young people, who lationship as merely “a transac- Vanessa Diamataris talks with John Sarbanes as her father is ests “fighting for the issues of portant, he said. “It is a commit- are giving back to the broader tional one,” not a values-based listening to her. Cyprus, the Ecumenical Patriar- ment to give back to the broader society, and lift them up. High- one, as is the case in ties with chate, FYROM,” and stability in society,” but he noted that so far light what they are doing and cel- Greece and Cyprus, “and we especially “the influence of big Sarbanes says he is deter- the Eastern Mediterranean in the that has be manifested mainly on ebrate them, so we can begin to ought to double down on that re- money,” which he said has gone mined to fight back. He will soon face of Turkey’s troubling behav- an individual basis, not collec- cultivate this profile for the com- lationship, rather than keep our too far. He cited one recent study introduce legislation new public ior. tively. munity.” distance,” as he sometimes hears. that found that “the average campaign finance reforms, so Sarbanes also spoke of an ear- He believes the community He also conveyed a message He pledges he will continue to member of Congress spends be- that over time, the dependence lier endeavor, which he calls members can add to its reputa- from his father: “You were there work with other Greek-Ameri- tween 30 and 70 percent of his on special interest can be re- “Hellenism in the Public Service” tion among their fellow Ameri- for my father – he is so apprecia- cans in Congress and their allies time just raising campaign duced. (HPS). He said that as he has cans as “a community that gives tive. He wishes he could be there to build counter-narratives.” money.” The congressman was very ex- traveled across the country, talk- back, because they will see them tonight.” He added: “you have In a touching moment, Sar- He said “we don’t have time cited to talk about his two initia- ing to Greek-Americans, he real- serving on the board of the local been there for me. We will con- banes said “I am proud to be a to do the work we were elected tives in the Greek-American com- ized there are three sources of hospital, and see young Greek tinue to world together and I Greek-American serving in Con- to do,” but added that it has munity, one of which also speaks pride. “First, we have a tremen- Americans volunteering and serv- know in my heart that Greece gress and I am very proud to be made his colleagues “very depen- to returning power to the general dous amount of pride in individ- ing in their communities, among will be resurgent.”

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Mr. Lang’s apparent weak- borious realities of careerism,” as …the difference is experience ing Orson Welles, John Ford, nesses are the consequences of he put it. Howard Hawks and Sam Fuller, his virtues. He has always lacked On one such footloose outing not to mention a British director the arid sophistication lesser di- he passed a year in Paris, drink- whom purists had dismissed as a rectors display to such advan- ing coffee and talking with the 239-777-4904 mere “commercial” filmmaker, tage.” Andrew Sarris was born in New Wave directors Mr. Godard [email protected] Alfred Hitchcock — and he Brooklyn on Oct. 31, 1928, to and Mr. Truffaut, who were the www.TheNaplesExperience.com championed them. Greek immigrant parents, George first to champion auteur theory. Mr. Sarris also embraced, al- and Themis Sarris, and grew up (Later, in the United States, he Μιλώ Ελληνικά DOWNING-FRYE REALTY, INC. beit with an occasional critical in Ozone Park, Queens. His ro- would edit an English-language slap about their heads, younger mance with movies was near to edition of the influential auteurist 271597/17902/01-05-13 Turks like Martin Scorsese, imprinted in his DNA. He remem- magazine Cahiers du Cinema.) Robert Altman and Francis Ford bered sitting in a darkened the- Always his love affair with Coppola. ater at the age of 3 or 4 en- movies sustained him. He re- “We were cowed into thinking tranced by a movie based on a called sitting through four dozen OFFICES for RENT that only European cinema mat- Jules Verne story. “The liquidity showings of “Gone With the tered,” Mr. Scorsese, who once of the scene and the film,” he re- Wind,” as besotted with Vivien IMPRESSIVE OFFICE FLOOR shared a closet-size office in called, “was truly magical, espe- Leigh on the 48th viewing as on Times Square with Mr. Sarris, cially to someone not many years the first. said in a 2009 interview. “What out of the womb himself.” Andrew showed us is that art was He attended John Adams all around us, and that our tradi- High School in Queens, his time tion, too, had much to offer; he there overlapping for a year or was our guide to the world of two with the newspaper colum- cinema.” nist Jimmy Breslin’s. But his con- Mr. Sarris’s book “The Ameri- cerns lay elsewhere. He recalled, can Cinema: Directors and Direc- as a teenager, sitting in his tions 1929-1968” stands as his Queens aerie, listening to the opus. If Ms. Kael more often won Academy Awards and the New points as the high stylist, Mr. Sar- York Film Critics award cere- ris’s métier was cerebral and an- monies, and developing his ideas, 4,285 square feet in perfect condition, alytic, interested always in the idiosyncratic and polemical, on a very nice lobby, spacious elevator, inside totality of a film’s effect on its au- film. the National Herald’s building dience and in the sweep of a di- He graduated from Columbia in Long Island City. Just 5 minutes rector’s career. He opened his es- College in 1951 and served three from Manhattan, near two train stations. say on Fritz Lang, the years in the Army Signal Corps. Perfectly suitable for law, medical offices, Austrian-born director, this way: He returned to live with his accounting, architectural firms etc. “Fritz Lang’s cinema is the cin- mother — his father had died — For further information please call ema of the nightmare, the fable, in Queens, passing his post-col- Veta at 718-784-5255. and the philosophical disserta- lege years in “flight from the la- THE NATIONAL HERALD, JUNE 23-29, 2012 COMMUNITY 7

ALL HISTORY The Warning Shot No One Heard: The 1911 Kenilworth, Utah Shootout

Continued from page 1 or used as strikebreakers. Skliris had incredible power at that time conflict and relentless toil. and place. Consequently, how- The labor issues, killings, and ever, he was exploiting his fellow subsequent incredible silence sur- Greeks. Once they realized that, rounding the events of early Feb- they collectively worked against ruary 1911 in Kenilworth, UT are not only him, but also against all too typical for that time and the illegal and exploitative sys- place. As far as can be deter- tem that he helped maintain. mined from public sources now What began as an all too com- available, at least two men – one mon labor dispute at the Inde- Greek, one American – were ABOVE: Panoramic photograph of the independent Coal & Coke Company of Kenilworth utah. would have it, the principal labor pendent Coal and Coke Com- killed. Two Greeks and a Swedish BELOW RiGHT: Leonidas G. Skliris, leading labor agent of the American West, c. 1912 BELOW agent in the West was a fellow pany of Kenilworth soon immigrant were seriously LEFT: The iCC tipple in Kenilworth utah. The tipple was the machine that sorted by grade, Greek, Leonidas G. Skliris. exploded into not simply a major wounded, and four Greeks were weighed, transported and loaded the coal onto railroad cars. Skliris established his main shootout, but also a hurricane of taken to jail – one of them treated office in Salt Lake City in 1897 news accounts found in newspa- by the police to a process called and soon thereafter served as a pers all across the United States, “sweating,” which can only be in- labor agent for the Utah Copper Canada, and even Australia. Fear terpreted as beatings or worse. Company, Western Pacific Rail- and anger against the Greeks can The press provides so many road, Denver and Rio Grande be read in the overwhelming ma- other statistics for arrested Western Railroad, and all the jority of these accounts. The Greeks it is uncertain how many Carbon County coal mines in Hi- viewpoint that the striking were either captured or died awatha, Sunnyside, Scofield, and Greeks actively sought legal doc- from gunshot wounds while es- even Kenilworth. With long-es- uments and a peaceful resolution caping attack. That incident far tablished contacts with labor was rarely conveyed by the press. from unique was one of a long agents in Idaho, Wyoming, Col- Accordingly, more should be string that led to a major strike orado, Nevada, and California it made known in sufficient detail in 1912 that stopped all mining was well-recognized that Skliris about how the Greeks actually production in the county known could within minutes of a tele- conducted themselves and also as the great Bingham Strike, phone call have men on a train how the historic public record still where Greek miners became the traveling to a destination where unjustly and incorrectly reports leaders of the conflict and so they could be hired as workers that those men were “rioters.” were the focus both of the na- tional union organizers and the mining company officials. Only fairly recently have his- torians begun to depict the con- tinuous violence between labor 2012 Presidential Race - Update and management from the end of the American Civil War to the laborers. The long-established cific job and usually extracted a ical violence and other offenses By Constantinos E. Scaros beginning of WW II as simply the company practice was to bring continuing fee as long as that against the workers, was same long conflict focusing on in cheap labor through agents person held that particular job. twofold. Half of all Greeks who The phrase “Obamacare on Trial” refers to the Supreme workplace rights, safety, and ben- who recruited whatever number This was part of a culture of ex- ever journeyed to America be- Court’s review of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) which, essen- efits. During that period, the in- of men were required. Union ploitation in which the worker tween 1880 and 1924 simply re- tially, is the health care legislation passed by Congress at pres- dividuals and small groups leaders decried the use of new found himself, charged special turned to Greece. The original ident Obama’s prompting. Part of what the nine Justices will known respectively as the Rob- workers who out of sheer igno- fees by the foremen, the com- intention of the vast majority of examine in rendering a decision by the end of June is whether ber Barons and monopolistic cor- rance would work far below nor- pany for his housing, and the them was to work abroad long or not it is Constitutional for government to require Americans porations were simultaneously mal wages. The agents would al- company-owned store, and the enough until family debts were to purchase health insurance in some manner. Do we have a fighting each other to consoli- ternate among ethnic groups so worker was even required to pay resolved or until enough cash Constitutional right to be left alone – even if that is not in the date control over the Western that first Austrians would be for his own dynamite or explo- was raised to improve family best interests of our health? The answer to that question – coal fields, smelters, railroads, working the mines, smelters or sive power necessary to extract conditions and then return and, effectively, the partial or total repeal of the ACA, aka and other sources of wealth, railroads. Once they recognized the coal, iron, and/or other min- home. Of those that remained in “Obamacare” – may very well be a referendum on Obama’s such that ultimate ownership fell they were being exploited and erals from the mines. North America permanently, presidency itself. into fewer and fewer hands. That raised complaints, the agents Greeks in Carbon County roughly only half ever married If Obamacare is repealed, the president will look quite foolish relentless drive for the consoli- would bring in Italians, Greeks, soon outnumbered other ethnic and stayed in this country. Tabu- in having established as his centerpiece legislation a highly dation of the nation's wealth Japanese, or some other ethnic groups, but they were far from lations regarding how many of controversial and undoubtedly confusing plan that was snubbed above all else inevitably led to group that did not speak the the only foreigners present. Due these married couples had chil- by the High Court for failure to pass Constitutional muster. abusing the workers. same language as the prior group to the demands of industrializa- dren are not available. What con- Then again, if the Court repeals Obamacare, one of the presi- Kenilworth is located in and thereby could not use its tion, the remote Utah county stitutes the Greek-American dent’s two most damaging issues (unemployment being the Utah’s Carbon County, where the members as strikebreakers. That soon became an incredible mix community today springs from other) will be off the table. subsidiaries of the railroads, the was an endlessly repeated of newly-arrived folks, among that uncertain population, as Add to the mix that virtually every Republican presidential coal mines, were constantly process and in many cases the them Austrians, Bulgarians, Eng- well as from those who arrived nominee this year was able to make an excell ent case against opening new veins. In 1912, first role of immigrants in the lish, Finns, Germans, Irish, Ital- after WW II. Obamacare – except of course for the one who’ll get the nomi- Bingham Canyon, also located in Western United States. ians, Koreans, and Japanese. For those Greeks working in nation, Mitt Romney, whose Massachusetts Romneycare was Carbon County, was experienc- Those labor agents, known as The Greek response to this the American West and espe- the prototype by which Obama was inspired. What will the ing an enormous increase in cop- patrones, did not simply get a neverending workplace abuse cially those in Utah, this entire Supreme Court decide, and which Obamney will the ruling af- per production, and thus re- worker a job; they also charged and continuous cycle of conflict, culture of exploitation was even fect the most? Stay tuned! quired thousands of new for getting the immigrant a spe- which frequently included phys- harder to withstand. As fate

The Greek Orthodox Cathedral of Saint Paul invites you to THE FEAST DAY OF THE HOLY APOSTLES PETER AND PAUL JUNE 29th, 2012

The Great Vespers Service Thursday, June 28, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. will be celebrated by his Eminence Archbishop Demetrios

Friday, June 29, 2012, Orthros at 9:00 a.m. Divine Liturgy at 10:00 a.m.

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Our Church will celebrate the feast of the birth of our patron Saint John the Forerunner, the Baptizer of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ with the following program.

SATURDAY JUNE 23 Great Panegyric Vespers, with Artoclasia at 7:00 p.m.

SUNDAY JUNE 24 Matins at 9,30 a.m. followed by Panegyric Divine Liturgy with Artoclasia at 10:30 a.m.

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a b a We extend a warm and heartfelt invitation to all to come and celebrate together. Very Reverend Archimandrite Vasilios Bassakyros 8 GREECE CYPRUS THE NATIONAL HERALD, JUNE 23-29, 2012 For Rescue Line, Cyprus Prefers Loan from Russia Rather than Europe

By Dan Bilefsky as high as 5 billion . A loan Bulba, a Ukrainian restaurant in The New York Times from Moscow is the favored op- , named after Nikolai tion, Cyprus officials say, be- Gogol’s heroic epic, beckons vis- LiMASSOL, Cyprus — Caviar cause it would come with fewer itors in Cyrillic. and pelmeni line the supermar- conditions than a European Many Russian expatriates ket shelves in this picturesque Union bailout and help ensure pay for newly built seaside villas seaside Cypriot city, so perva- that Cyprus’s 10 percent corpo- here with suitcases of cash, ac- sively Russian that it has been rate tax rate — the lowest in the cording to brokers, prompting dubbed “Limassolgrad.” Union and the main draw for some rare anti-Russian grum- Victoriya Maltabar socializes the estimated 50,00 0 Russian- bling by Cypriots that the Rus- at a restaurant that caters to speakers in Cyprus — remains sians are inflating real estate Russians in Limassol, Cyprus on unchanged. prices. June 18. As this tiny island na- But some analysts warn that The most famous Russian in- tion seeks to stave off economic by turning to Russia, Cyprus, vestor in Cyprus is Dmitry Ry- insolvency, many here hope that which takes over the rotating bolovlev, a billionaire who once it is Moscow rather than the Eu- presidency of the European owned a potash fertilizer empire ropean Union that will come to Union on July 1, threatens to and who is the beneficiary of an the rescue. become a vassal of the Kremlin. offshore fund that has a large Now many on this tiny island As it is, President Demetris stake in the Bank of Cyprus. nation, whose banks and gov- Christofias, a keen ally of the Analysts say that Russia’s spy ernment are facing economic in- Russian president, Vladimir V. agencies are also believed to be solvency, are hoping for finan- Putin, and the only Communist operating in Cyprus, whose lo- cial salvation from Russia rather leader in the union, could prove cation close to the Middle East than Germany and the Euro- an awkward public face when helps Russia to maintain its pean Union. Cyp rus takes over stewardship sphere of influence there. In “I would much rather be of the bloc. January, a Russian cargo ship saved by Moscow,” said Elena Mr. Christofias, a fluent Russ- packed with 60 tons of ammu- Tsolia, 30, an attendant at the ian speaker, studied at a univer- nition stopped in Cyprus en department store Debenhams, sity in Moscow and has person- AP PHOTO/PHIlIPPOS CHRISTOU route to Syria. Cyprus, as a Eu- where Russian shoppers snap up ally overseen loan negotiations Cyprus President Dimitris Christofias, right, and Eu enlargement commissioner, Stefan Fule, ropean Union member, must bottles of Dior and Chanel per- with Russia, officials say. On a during the ir meeting at the Presidential palace in , Cyprus, Tuesday, June 19, 2012. obey the bloc’s strict embargo fume. “We are a small island trip to Moscow in 2008, he Stefan Fule was in Cyprus on a two-day official visit. on military supplies to the Syr- and we don’t want to be owned called himself “the red sheep” ian regime. But the ship was al- by Germany.” of Europe. ding process. But Cypriot gas Union, the world’s largest trad- ally. Andreas D. Mavroyiannis, lowed to sail, officials said, after The slim victory by a pro- “Cyprus needs to decide if it will help offset ing bloc, for the thousands of deputy minister for European giving assurances that it would bailout party in Greek elections wants to be a member of the energy dependence on Russia, companies registered in Cyprus Affairs, said during an interview alter its route. on Sunday has helped allay European Union or the Soviet and analysts say Moscow’s in- whose beneficiaries are Russian. that Russia, a permanent mem- While Cyprus’s draw may be some concerns that a potential Union,” Fiona Mullen, a leading tentions remain unclear. Cyprus accounted for 20 percent ber of the United Nations Secu- more fiscal than spiritual, Na- Greek exit from the euro zone analyst in Cyprus, said. She To many Cypriots and mem- of foreign direct investment in rity Council, had consistently talia Kardash, the Russian editor would sink the Cypriot econ- noted that if Cyprus accepted a bers of the island’s Russian com- Russia last year, more than supported Cyprus in the conflict in chief of Vestnik Kipra, a Russ- omy, which is heavily exposed second Russian loan, nearly munity, criticism of a potential China. over the island’s division. ian weekly, said that Russians to Greek banks. But as a back- two-thirds of its gross domestic Russian loan smacks of Mr. Christofias has proved a Turkey invaded Cyprus in felt a kinship with Cyprus, in lash against austerity spreads product could potentially be in hypocrisy. George V. Vassiliou, dependable champion of 1974, dividing the island into a part because they shared an or- across Europe, Cypriot officials thrall to Russian lenders. the former Cypriot president, Moscow. A confidential 2009 ca- larger Greek part and a smaller thodox religion. say they are determined to That prospect is stirring anx- said during an interview that it ble from the United States em- Turkish part that only Ankara In the end, Cyprus officials avoid the kind of severe budget iety among the island’s high- was only natural that Cyprus bassy in Cyprus to Washington recognizes internationally. The say the coun try could seek aid cuts that unhinged the Greek spending Russian expatriates would seek the most favorable leaked by WikiLeaks noted that Turkish presence remains a vis- from both the Russian govern- economy. and their army of accountants terms. Criticism of Russia’s in- Mr. Christofias had vilified ceral and daily obsession for ment and the European Union. The Russian government last and lawyers who benefit from fluence in Cyprus, he added, NATO. It said his promotion of Greek-Cypriots, and Russian One option being studied is to year gave Cyprus a three-year operating in a country shielded was little more than Russopho- Russia’s security agenda within support provides a sense of se- seek European Union rescue loan of 2.5 billion euros, or $3.1 from Russian lawlessness and bia. the European Union seemed curity. funds to shore up the country’s billion at the current exchange corruption. “This is a remnant of the cold “gratuitous.” But Mr. Mavroyiannis em- banking sector and a loan from rate, at a below-market rate of Some analysts warn that war,” he sai d. “If Citibank were He was one of the few union phasized that Cyprus looked Russia to help shore up its 4.5 percent to help it service its Russia could demand a heavy offering a loan, no one would leaders to support Russia in its west — not east. “We are not bloated and overstretched pub- debt. Cyprus now needs at least price for its support, including accuse us of being a vassal of 2008 war with . He also seeking an escape from our Eu- lic finances. 1.8 billion euros, or $2.3 billion, a stake in the country’s large gas the United States.” backed Moscow’s criticism of a ropean obligations,” he said. Either way, Ms. Kardash said by the end of this month to but- reserves recently discovered in The ardent affair between proposed missile defense system “The Russian loan came with no the Russians were here to stay. tress its ailing banking sector. the eastern Mediterranean. one of Europe’s tiniest countries in Eastern Europe strongly op- strings attached.” “Cypriots are welcoming peo- Officials say they hope to ne- Russian companies are among and its giant ally is grounded in posed by the Kremlin. Russian cultural influence in ple,” she said. “Many people gotiate securing a new loan those bidding for concessions. mutual interests. For Cyprus, Russia provides Cyprus is palpable. There are here speak Russian. You don’t from Moscow as early as this Nicosia insists a Russian loan For Moscow, Cyprus provides economic sustenance as well as several Russian schools and a feel like a foreigner. Why would week. Analysts say it could be will have no effect on the bid- a gateway to the European being a steadfast geopolitical Russian radio station. The Taras anyone want to leave?” Andreas Vgenopoulos: Just a Typical Poor Man…with Heaps of Money

ATHENS/NiCOSSiA, June 13 Vgenopoulos denies any may have gone wrong at Marfin Manolis Bedeniotis, a just-re- Zacharias Koulias, told the against me, they are discovering (Reuters) – Like many Greek ty- wrongdoing. But his travails – and into shortcomings by tired MP with PASOK, the Greek Cypriot parliament ahead of the old things ... I ended up in a coons these days, Andreas shed light on a factor largely Cypriot regulators. socialist party, said it was clear parliamentary vote that in his trap.” Vgenopoulos is in trouble. overlooked in the narrative of Analyses of the Greek crisis there was a “lack of substantial years in parliament, “it’s the first Orphanides declined to com- The self-made businessman the Greek economic crisis, have focused on the most glar- regulatory control on the bank- time we are in such a difficult ment for this story. built one of Greece’s leading which is now threatening to ing cause of the country’s woes: ing system”. Loans were often position.” Like many other The former Marfin bank’s corporate empires over the past force Athens out of the euro the hundreds of billions of dol- issued based on “a network of Cypriot politicians, he blames biggest immediate problems two decades. Among its jewels zone and unravel the currency lars in debts racked up by personal relationships,” starving Vgenopoulos. stem from having to write down was a major bank in the nearby along with it: the debts many Athens, which has so far re- those in the real economy – “How could (Cypriot author- the value of its investment in Mediterranean island nation of Greek banks built up by lending quired two bailouts. small and medium businesses ities) be fooled by a man who Greek government debt to 720 Cyprus. Then it all started to un- to each other and to associates. and farmers – of access to fi- took the capital of Cypriot de- million euros from 3.05 billion. ravel. Last November, regulators in nance. “This is the evolution of positors to Greece and turned it Such haircuts have been forced In 2010, Marfin Investment Cyprus pressured Vgenopoulos Regulators in Cyprus a system that was functioning into thin air?” Koulias said. “Is on banks holding Greek sover- Group (MIG), the firm to give up his chairmanship of pressured Vgenopoulos to according to its connections it even possible for a man to eign paper across Europe, as Vgenopoulos managed which Marfin bank. Now renamed with th e political and the eco- come to our country, grab the part of the latest bailout of has stakes in everything from Cyprus Popular Bank, it was give up his chairmanship nomic power, and in the end capital and leave, and all these Athens. privatised national carrier placed under state management of Marfin bank. Now reached a point of even being managers didn’t realize what “There was too much lend- Olympic Air to food giant Vivar- in May. The bank’s new execu- above it.” was going on?” ing, too much concentration of tia, lost 1.8 billion euros ($2.2 tives have uncovered what they renamed Cyprus Popular The scale of Marfin’s prob- Vgenopoulos rejects any sug- risk in one instrument,” said billion). The loss, largely made suggest is evidence of huge ex- Bank, it was placed under lems poses difficulties for the gestion of blame. Interviewed in Sarris, the new non-executive up of write-downs on goodwill, posure at its Greek businesses Cyprus government. In a parlia- his wood-panelled MIG board- chairman. “And that suggests was the biggest ever for a Greek to risky investments, including state management in May mentary session on May 17, room in Athens, dressed in jeans that the mechanisms of the bank company to that point. There is loans issued to investors who they voted to help the bank fill and polo shirt, he said Cypriot did not work properly.” a joke in Athens that MIG’s ini- bought shares in the MIG con- Less attention has been paid a capital shortfall estimated by regulators had conducted a But the bank’s other lending tials stand for “Money Is Gone.” glomerate. They allege this has to the nation’s banks, which are the bank and the country’s fi- smear campaign against him. in Greece may have added to Meantime the Marfin Popu- left the bank too vulnerable to due to be bailed out with 30 bil- nance ministry at nearly 2 bil- His exit as non-executive chair- the problems. Of its capital lar Bank wa s a major lender to MIG’s fate. lion to 50 billion euros in guar- lion euros. Lawmakers in man of Marfin – Vgenopoulos shortfall, the bank estimates an order of Greek monks who “I think clearly there were antees from European taxpay- Cyprus fear that if no new pri- said he jumped rather than was nearly one-third arises from pro- received swathes of prime state- many decisions which were in ers. A look at Marfin, along with vate investors are found, the pushed - was part of a “coup” visions for bad loans in Greece. owned land in sweetheart deals, retrospect unwise,” said Michael previous Reuters examinations bank could even force the re- organised by the then-governor According to Sarris, the “single and who in turn bought shares Sarris, a former Cypriot finance of Greek lenders Proton and Pi- public, one of the smallest of the central bank of Cyprus, most important factor” dissuad- in MIG. A Greek parliamentary minister who has taken over as raeus, suggests that the nation’s economies in the euro zone, to Athanasios Orphanides. ing investors from helping re- inquiry alleged serious “conflicts chairman of the seized bank. Se- financial woes were exacerbated seek its own bailout. The money “The biggest mistake of my capitalise the bank was now not of interest” in how bank loans nior bank officials say the cen- by conflicts of interest at some needed represents a tenth of the career,” he said, was to keep his sovereign bonds but concern were issued to finance MIG’s tral bank of Cyprus is preparing banks and by light regulatory country’s GDP. bank in Cyprus, where now that further losses in Greece wider activities. to order an inquiry into what supervision of them. An independent MP, “they are throwing allegations could materialise. Greece Beats Russia 1-0 to Advance to Euro Championship Quarterfinals

WARSAW, (AP) — day amid a financial meltdown the match at the National Sta- Greece's national football team that has threatened its member- dium, but it was again guilty of restored some pride to a crisis- ship in the . Germany squandering chances. hit nation. has put pressure on any new "We did go forward, were The team's 1-0 win over Rus- government to accept strict aus- very attacking. We played well, sia at the European Champi- terity measures and stand by but you have to score goals," Ad- onship on Saturday touched off promises to international credi- vocaat said. "We did that in first a wave of celebrations by fans tors. game and despite all the pos- back home who have been bat- On Friday, however, it will be session today we didn't do that tered by an ongoing financial back to football in Gdansk for a today." crisis and years of austerity. The shot at the semifinals. Russia became one of the win put Greece in the quarterfi- Greece coach Fernando San- tournament favorites with its 4- nals and eliminated the Rus- tos played down the possibility 1 win over the Czech Republic sians. of drawing inspiration from Ger- in their opening match, but then "We are proud that we gave many's tough budgetary line drew with Poland and finally the peo ple back home some joy with Athens. lost to Greece, snapping a 16- and a break from their problems "What inspires us is Greece's match unbeaten run. — even for a short while," history. That inspires me a lot," Russian players dejectedly Greece striker Georgios Samaras said Santos, who is Portuguese. tramped off the field immedi- said. "We did very well defen- "The Greeks have great pride ately after the final whistle, sively, but the will we had was and they have earned respect while Greece's euphoric players the main thing. That stopped from everyone. History democ- hugged one another and then them from scoring goals." racy, science, values — it all celebrated with fans. The Greeks took the lead just started in Greece." "What I'm feeling is over- before the halftime whistle Karagounis, playing his na- whelming. I think we did de- when captain Giorgos Karagou- tional record-tying 120th inter- serve more, but it didn't hap- nis sent a low shot under Russia national match, will miss the pen," Malafeev said. "To concede goalkeeper Vyacheslav quarterfinals after getting a yel- that goal just before halftime Malafeev. low card for diving. The Greece was an awful feeling." "The moments are pure captain thought he won a The mood in Athens was magic for all of us. This is a AP PHOTO/mICHAEl SOHN penalty when he made contact quite different. Thousands great night for all Greeks," Greek players celebrate their 1-0 win at the end of the Euro 2012 soccer championship Group with Sergei Ignashevich in the poured into Omonia square in Karagounis said. "I thank God A match between Greece and Russia in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, June 16, 2012. area, but Swedish referee Jonas central Athens waving Greek for living these moments. I can- Eriksson instead booked him. flags, lighting flares and setting not describe how I feel. It's so had 25 shots to Greece's five. match as Russia coach before Germany in a politically charged "That's not fair," Karagounis off firecrackers amid the din of great." "We should have won by a moving to PSV Eindhoven. "A quarterfinal that would bring said. "They should check the hundreds of honking cars. Russia coach Dick Advocaat wide margin tonight but we did- number of players weren't sharp the financial crisis onto the field video." "A little more respect for was left ruing his talented n't. My compliments to Greece," enough to score." at Euro 2012. Greece will vote Russia had been the over- Greece please," reveler Anestis team's missed chances. Russia the Dutchman said after his final The Greeks could now face for a new government on Sun- whelming favorite going into Krilekoutis said. THE NATIONAL HERALD, JUNE 23-29, 2012 GREECE 9 New Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras Leads a Fragile Coalition

Continued from page 1 vince the Troika to give it two more years, until 2016, to re- including lawyers, architects, duce its public deficit below 3 engineers and pharmacists, who percent of GDP, requiring the enjoy near monopolies. Troika to loan Greece another In comments to reporters, he $20.3-$25.3 billion. stressed the need for “patriotism, TECHNOCRATS AND , and trust that POLiTiCiANS with God’s help we can ensure While not serving in the gov- that the Greek people emerge ernment, PASOK and the Demo- from the crisis as soon as possi- cratic Left reportedly would be ble.” He said he would push his given the chance to name some ministers to “work hard” in order ministers, who were expected to to give Greek people “tangible be technocrats, not politicians. hope.” During the handover with New Democracy and PASOK outgoing caretaker Premier leaders have been blamed for Panayiotis Pikrammenos, Sama- creating the economic crisis and ras said, “I am fully aware of the Greece’s staggering $460 billion critical moments we face as a debt by packing public payrolls country.” He added that Greeks with hundreds of thousands of were “injured” and needed “heal- needless workers for generations ing.” Pikrammenos wished in return for votes, and despite Samaras luck and said the con- two years of protests, strikes and servative leader was assuming riots against them, are now back power “at a difficult and historic in power again, despite ’s crossroads.” “You have many bat- strong voice of opposition. tles to fight at home and The Leftists wanted some of abroad,” he said. Samaras said, the members of the caretaker ad- “I know well the need to restore ministration, such as Interior the dignity of the Greek people Minister and that has been wounded … I Labor Minister Antonis Roupaki- know the need for a quick recov- otis, to stay, while Yiannis ery of the economy to restore so- Stournaras, the temporary Devel- cial justice and social cohesion.” opment Minister plucked from He faces daunting chal- the respected Foundation for Eco- lenges, nearly alone, as PASOK nomic and Industrial Research Socialist leader Evangelos (IOBE) was expected to play a Venizelos – who also supported key role. The choice for the criti- austerity measures during a AP PHOTO/PETROS GIANNAKOURIS cal position of Finance Minister brief previous coalition he Greek conservative leader Antonis Samaras (r), crosses himself on Wednesday, June 20. Samaras was sworn in as prime min- was expected to be National shared with Samaras – and De- during a swearing-in ceremony at the Presidential Palace as at ister Wednesday at the helm of a three-party coalition that will Bank President Vassilis Rapanos, mocratic Left leader Fotis Kou- the background president looks on, in Athens, uphold the country’s international bailout commitments. whose institution put out a key velis, who opposed the terms, document attacking SYRIZA’s said they would not offer any of ras said would have forced she’s open to talking. to reverse cuts in the minimum percent, far worse than pro- role late in the campaign. their members for the Cabinet, Greece out of the Eurozone of While he has a coalition on wage and disengage Greece jected. Samaras will also have Samaras, Venizelos, and Kou- leaving the new Prime Minister the 17 countries using the euro paper, Samaras will have to face from bailouts within two years. to deal with the Troika’s hard- velis decided that the new gov- exposed to criticism if he fails. as a currency. the tough issues nearly alone “The Democratic Left is insisting liner, German Chancellor Angela ernment would comprise 15 New Democracy won the critical “SYRIZA will fight from the and head-on. Venizelos had to that this platform will contain Merkel, whose country is foot- ministers and about 20 deputy June 17 elections, the second position of responsible, active convince skeptical PASOK Mem- commitments that will ensure ing much of the bailout bill and ministers. This represents a sub- after a May 6 ballot failed to opposition,” spokesman Panos bers of Parliament not to take the removal of measures that has stood her ground on auster- stantial reduction from the 49 yield a government, but got less Skourletis said after the coali- Cabinet positions while Kou- have gravely affected the Greek ity. Despite the win by the pro- ministers and deputies that than 30 percent of the vote, tion agreement was announced. velis, who refused to join a New society,” Kouvelis said. austerity New Democracy, and served in the interim cabinet un- forcing Samaras to lure part- “It will stand beside those who Democracy-PASOK planned gov- The austerity measures have the inclusion of PASOK, she is der . Samaras ners. suffer from the policies being ernment after the May 6 elec- deepened a five-year-long reces- not backing away from de- reportedly wanted to create sep- With PASOK and Democratic implemented and will lead the tions because he said he was sion that has created 22.6 per- mands that Greece make more arate tourism and merchant ma- Left members, he controls 179 social struggles of the next afraid of being branded a traitor cent unemployment, led to the cuts without delay, putting rine ministries. These depart- seats in the 300-member Parlia- phase in the effort of keeping to the left, insisted that as a con- closing of 1,000 businesses a Samaras in a vise. Sources told ments had been absorbed into ment, but the coalition got only alive the hope of overturning dition of supporting the new week and shrunk the Gross Do- the newspaper that the Development Ministry and 48 percent of the vote, and the bailout policies.” Fierce op- government that Samaras push mestic Product (GDP) by 6.5 Greece will be aiming to con- bring back the - Samaras’ chief rival, Coalition position to austerity and con- Thrace Ministry. Twenty years of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) stant protests, strikes and riots ago, he opposed Greece’s deci- leader said he brought down the government sion to let its northern neighbor would fight the new Prime Min- of former PASOK leader and Greece's new Cabinet ministers call itself the Former Yugoslav ister tooth and nail if he does then Prime Minister George Pa- Republic of Macedonia, bringing not get better terms from inter- pandreou – Samaras’s room- ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Cabinet ministers in Greece's new coalition government: down a New Democracy Admin- national lenders. SYRIZA fin- mate at in Prime Minister: Antonis Samaras istration and there’s been no res- ished a close second in the elec- Massachusetts – and the Con- Finance: Vassilis Rapanos olution since. tions but refused to join the servative leader could face the Administrative Reform and e-Governance: Antonios Manitakis To help him govern and try coalition. same if he imposes more aus- Interior: to bring some sense of consen- Greece is surviving on a first terity measures. Foreign Affairs: sus, Samaras may keep an in- bailout of $152 billion from the NOW WHAT? Defense: formal cross-party committee Troika of the European Union- After his victory, Samaras Development, Competitiveness, Infrastructure, Transport and Networks: Costis Hatzidakis out of the panel that helped International Monetary Fund- pledged to uphold the deal he Environment, Energy and Climate Change: Evangelos Livieratos work out the makeup of the (EU- signed with the Troika, although Education, Religious Affairs, Culture and Sport: Constantinos Arvanitopoulos coalition. Samaras, Venizelos IMF-ECB) that insisted on deep he later said he would try to Labor, Social Security and Welfare: Ioannis Vroutsis and Kouvelis held talks with pay cuts, big tax hikes, slashed change some of the conditions. Health: Andreas Lykourentzos caretaker Finance Minister Gior- pensions and other reforms. A The Troika, however, has Rural Development and Food: Athanasios Tsaftsaris gos Zannias and Rapanos. Zan- second rescue package for $173 warned that the new govern- Justice, Transparency and Human Rights: Antonis Roupakiotis nias was to represent Greece at billion was on hold until the ment must follow through on Public Order and Citizen Protection: Nikolaos Dendias a meeting of Eurozone Finance elections to determine if anti- the reforms and make an addi- Tourism: Ministers on June 21 andit was austerity parties led by SYRIZA tional $15 billion in cuts or face Merchant Marine and Aegean: Constantinos Mousouroulis decided that all three leaders would form a government and, the likelihood of the loans stop- Macedonia and Thrace: Theodoros Karaoglou would travel together to next as Tsipras sai d, re-do the terms ping, although in recent days State: Dimitris Stamatis week’s EU leaders’ summit in or renege on them, which Sama- IMF chief said Brussels. Greece Names Respected Banker Vassilis Rapanos As Finance Ministe

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — lock, having a long-term gov- cope with soaring unemploy- to open the road to develop- Greece's new conservative-led ernment with broad parliamen- ment and a deep recession now ment and to revise the terms of coalition government named its tary support has eased market in its fifth year. the loan agreement without Cabinet on Thursday, appointing fears of an imminent Greek exit Samaras met earlier Thurs- jeopardizing the country's Euro- a prominent banker to take over from the 17-nation euro cur- day with his two minority coali- pean course or its presence in the key position of finance min- rency, an event that could have tion partners — Evangelos the euro," the statement said. ister. dragged d own other financially Venizelos from Socialist PASOK "And, of course, without con- Vassilis Rapanos, a non-exec- troubled European countries and the smaller Democratic testing the obvious targets of ze- utive chairman of the National and battered the global econ- Left's Fotis Kouvelis — to thrash roing the fiscal deficit, control- , has been a lead- omy. out the government's policy ling the debt and implementing ing figure in the country's bank- Antonis Samaras, whose con- platform. the structural changes the coun- ing sector and has also been servative New Democracy party Since May 2010, Greece has try needs." teaching at Athens University came first in Sunday's election been able to pay its bills only The new ministers and their since 1992. but without enough votes to with bailouts loans from inter- deputies were to be sworn in The three-party coalition form a government on its own, national creditors. Samaras' Thursday evening, except for a government, created after three was sworn in as prime minister government will seek to rene- deputy foreign minister, who days of negotiations following a Wednesday, pledging to restore gotiate some of the terms at- was abroad, and Rapanos, to al- national election on June 17, hope to a country with a pro- tached to those loans but will low outgoing Finance Minister aims to remain at the country's AP PHOTO/KOSTAS TSIRONIS tracted debt crisis that has ensure the country remains in Giorgos Zanias to represent helm for a full four-year term, Prominent banker Vassilis Rapanos looks on during his meeting forced across-the-board cuts in the euro, the prime minister's Greece at Thursday's meeting of the prime minister's office said. with New Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and the incomes and public services. office said in a statement. eurozone finance ministers in After weeks of political dead- heads of the two minority coalition partners. Greeks are also struggling to "Its aim is to tackle the crisis, Luxembourg. Greek Extremists Accusedf O Anti-Immigrant Attacks

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — An im- Constantinou said Golden migrant rights group is accusing Dawn's strong showing in the poll a Greek far-right party of step- — it won 18 seats in parliament ping up violent attacks on immi- — has emboldened it to step up grants in an orchestrated "terror such violence, and he accused po- campaign." lice of covering up for the party. United Against Racism and denies involve- Fascist Violence Movement coor- ment in anti-immigrant attacks dinator Petros Constantinou on and insists it is a nationalist pa- Thursday accused the Golden triotic group campaigning on a Dawn party of being behind platform of ridding the country "hundreds" of such attacks since of illegal immigrants and clean- last weekend's crucial national ing up crime-ridden neighbor- election. hoods. Firefighter dies fighting blaze

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A Greek firefighter died Wednesday while helping to battle a large wildfire burning inside an air force base just west of Athens, authorities say. A fire department statement said the 28-year-old felt unwell and was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced The ’s Third Anniversary dead. Greek air force spokesman Constantinos Grapsas said the blaze Visitor stand at entrance of the Acropolis museum in central Athens, Wednesday, June 20, 2012. The Acropolis museum, which is not endangering installations at the Elefsina base — primarily was purpose-built to host the Parthenon's Elgin Marbles, marked its third anniversary. used by fire-fighting and transport planes. 10 EDITORIALS LETTERS THE NATIONAL HERALD, JUNE 23-29, 2012

The National Herald LETTERS TO THE EDITOR A weekly publication of the NATIONAL HERALD, INC. Archdiocese Should Focus (ΕΘΝΙΚΟΣ ΚΗΡΥΞ), is too preoccupied with collecting haps would not be such a bad the “clique” at Holy Cross, didn’t reporting the news and addressing the issues of paramount interest On Conduct, Not on Money stewardship monies from idea to begin ordaining more attend full time, or perhaps stud- to the Greek-American community of the United States of America. parishes but generally uninter- priests with lay professions to ied at another Orthodox school. To the Editor: ested when it comes to the be- serve in smaller communities. Ordaining priests with lay careers Publisher-Editor Antonis H. 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Sure On line subscription: Subscribers to the print edition: 1 year $34.95, 6 months $23.95, New York Times editorial about ish the job, every de- Western polity, enough, history tells us that the 3 months $14.95; Non subscribers: 1 year $45.95, 6 months $29.95, 3 months $18.95 the situation in Greece featuring tail now diagnosed you’ll find it in the militarily defeated Greeks went quotes from his famous poem and sliced away, and sociological mindset on overtake their Roman con- Periodical postage paid at L.I.C., N.Y. and additional mailing offices. “Waiting for the Barbarians.” A they retire, also tak- of these two worlds, querors through their culture, and Postmaster send change of address to: quick glance through the Cavafy ing the wages due to etc. eventually controlled the entire THE NATIONAL HERALD, 37-10 30th Street, LIC, NY 11101-2614 Archive – readily available online them – it will be a Regardless of the empire (transfer of capital from – yielded another very timely miracle if anything outcome of Greece’s to Constantinople). The piece entitled “In a Large Greek is left at all after by Christopher second national same remarkable power to adapt Colony, 200 B.C.” The Alexan- such surgical effi- TRIPOULAS elections in two is seen during the period of Ot- drian’s words, written 84 years ciency. Special to months (you’ve toman rule, when Greeks devel- Obama Right about Immigrants ago, remain as meaningful as ever Maybe the mo- The National Herald gotta love comedian oped the remarkable “commu- today: “That things in the Colony ment has not yet ar- Lakis Lazopoulos’ nity,” with which they kept Concerning a matter of vital importance for many Greek-Amer- are not what they should be no rived. Let’s not be too hasty: haste quote that sometimes you have Hellenism alive and robust de- icans, President Barack Obama announced last Friday a decision one can doubt any longer, and is a dangerous thing. Untimely to put the dirty laundry through spite major persecution. to extend work permits to immigrants below age 30 who were though in spite of everything we measures bring repentance. Cer- a second cycle in order to ensure In many ways, Greece is a brought to the United States prior to age 16. do go forward, maybe – as more tainly, and unhappily, many that all the stains are removed), “colony” today, just like the title This decision will not gain them a green card or allow them to than a few believe – the time has things in the Colony are absurd. the issue will probably be much of Cavafy’s poem. Its leaders op- become U.S. citizens, but will allow them to work legally, and that come to bring in a Political Re- But is there anything human more complex than whether erate like mere agents of the colo- is an important step in the right direction. former. without some fault? And after all, which party wins. Even the nial rulers, and its citizens suffer The president's initiative caused a strong backlash, as was ex- But here’s the problem: they you see, we do go forward. dilemma being posed of euro vs. the fate of colonial populaces. So pected. Opponents argued that this is a veiled plan by him to gain make a tremendous fuss about One of the striking things drachma is unlikely to solve mat- long as elderly people are com- an even wider voter base, since it will legalize mainly Latino immi- everything, these Reformers. about this poem is that it shows ters either way. Greece’s endemic mitting suicide on the streets of grant workers. (What a relief it would be if no how apt history is to repeat itself. problems existed during the days Athens, the sick go without med- one ever needed them.) They Cavafy didn’t have a crystal ball of the drachma, and Lord knows icine, and households are ruined Every presidential decision is undoubtedly loaded with political probe everywhere, question the – although it certainly seems like that the euro hasn’t made them because Europe has found itself considerations, and this one was not an exception. smallest detail, and right away it when reading this – but like go away. a new guinea pig, there will be By the way many Greek children whose parents entered the think up radical changes that de- every other truly meaningful and Western Europe has a nasty cause for righteous indignation. country illegally are now facing many problems, including finding mand immediate execution. quintessentially Greek text, the history when it comes to clear- Colonies were always a pen- a decent job due. Also, they have a liking for sac- meaning remains timeless be- cut, simplistic solutions. Let’s not chant of Western Europeans, and The only question that we should be asking is whether or not rifice: “Get rid of that property; cause it tackles issues that surpass forget the “final solution” Ger- old habits die hard. But even the this policy will serve the best interests of our country. In our view, your owning it is risky: properties the mere ephemeral. many once pushed for that sent mightiest of colonial rulers even- it does. like those are exactly what ruin Faithful to the traditional Hel- millions of people to their tually lost their colonies to revo- What else could a child do who came here under 16, went to colonies. Get rid of that income, lenic mindset, and like most other death… Of course, there is a long lution. Let’s not forget the famous school here, and has n ever gone back to his or her parents' home- and the other connected with it, great Greek writers and thinkers, history of this sort of thing in the words of a one-time colonial sub- land because there would be no hope of coming back to the United and this third, as a natural con- Cavafy has an aversion towards West, i.e. the Inquisition, witch- ject, Thomas Jefferson, who said States? Furthermore, what benefit would it be to society at large sequence: they are substantial, simplistic, supposedly pure, and hunts, etc. “A little rebellion now and then for these youngsters to fill unskilled labor positions under the but what can one do? The respon- clear-cut solutions. This difference It is characteristic of Cavafy’s is a good thing.” Such is the tur- radar? sibility they create for you is dam- in viewpoints is central to distin- poems that he practically always bulence that results from the pur- The president's action, although a good start, only goes only aging.” guishing the Greek perspective chooses periods of decline for suit of liberty and happiness, but, half way in solving the problem: he should have given those young And as they proceed with their from the Western European one. Hellenism as their setting; most as Jefferson points out, a danger- people the chance to obtain lawful permanent residence if they investigation, they find an endless You’ll find it at the heart of theo- often, just before the Romans ous freedom is preferable to were law abiding in every other respect. number of useless things to elim- logical differences between Or- come to overtake the Greek cities. peaceful slavery. Moreover, the president lost a big chance – for fear of political cost, to be sure – to make a goodwill gesture to the children in Greece, those who are smart and educated, but who don't see any future there and have decided to establish their careers elsewhere. PRESS CLIPPINGS Samaras: The Comeback Kid Euro Fallout: Russia and Turkey Will Drift From West Antonis Samaras was sworn in as Greece’s prime minister, achieving a feat that seemed practically impossible. By Walter Russell Mead period of European introspec- ments. or able to push this treaty It is an amazing personal achievement for a politician whose The Wall Street Journal tion and preoccupation to ad- A recent Rasmussen poll of ahead. rush to become prime minister and whose errors in judgment kept vance its agenda. the American public had shock- Efforts to extend European him in political exile for nearly two decades. He is a true “comeback The crisis of the euro zone is Between Russia's new geopo- ing news for Atlanticists: 51% ideas of kid,” returning from virtual wasteland to the head of the Greek a geopolitical as well as an eco- litical opportunities and Turkey's of those polled favored the with- through binding treaties and in- political world. nomic event. While Europe may detachment from Europe, the drawal of all U.S. troops from stitutions will lose ground, too. Samaras had made it his lifelong struggle to reach the prime yet find a path out of its eco- situation in the is going Europe. While both Barack The EU hoped to become a new minister’s office, and he pursued this goal with dedication, tenacity, nomic quagmire, it will turn in- to become much more confused Obama and Mitt Romney re- kind of world power, leading by passion, and clear decisiveness. ward for some time as it reor- and perhaps even dangerous. If main committed to the Atlantic example and by the "power of The road that is now ahead of him, as Greece’s premier, is about ganizes some of its core Greece ends up leaving the euro Alliance, news that our allies are attraction." But both of these as rugged as his own personal path to reaching the top. institutions. The world will not or is deeply embittered with gutting their already meager de- forms of soft power depend on We wish him the same success in this new battle that he will be stand still while this happens. Brussels and the EU over the fense budgets will not help success. Until the euro crisis is leading as prime minister as he had in pursuing the office, for his To begin with, Europe's dis- long term, and if Cyprus is sim- American politicians make the resolved in a creditable and con- own good and for the good of the Greek people. There i s no room order is a grand opportunity for ilarly affected (likely, given its case for it to the voters. structive way, Europe's struggles for new divisions, revenge, or conceit in this battle. Russia. It is not all good news close economic ties to Greece), Europe's influence on the with the euro will subvert its at- What is needed is a policy of unity, reconciliation, and utilization in the Kremlin—Russia will hurt we could see Greece and Cyprus global scene will diminish. Post- tempt to project its values and of the best resources the nation has to offer, regardless of personal economically, as the European tilt toward Russia. colonial societies around the defend its interests world-wide. feelings. Union is its most important trad- Even without that, a compli- world have long noted the poor This is bad news for Ameri- Mr. Samaras is assuming the office of prime minister at the ing partner and customer for oil cated situation threatens to economic performance of the cans. An assumption that Eu- worst possible time. and gas. But geopolitically, Rus- emerge. may look more former lords of the earth. Asians rope is in a period of continuing But there are some signs of hope. The majority of the Greek sia will have a lot of new op- to Russia, and in any case it is increasingly think of Europe as decline is to some degree baked people are ready to support him. Europe and the United States portunities. Ukraine, Moldova likely to be less interested in a kind of big Italy—a charming into the cake of American for- seem willing to lend him a helping hand. After a long period of and Belarus will feel less pull what the West thinks. Turkey place with beautiful architec- eign policy. The perception that sour relations and distrust towards him, they are now ready to bet from the West and more from may have more to say about the ture, glorious cultural monu- Europe (and Japan) are no on him to implement the agreements and head off Alexis Tsipras’ the East. situation in the Balkans, too— ments, delicious food and some longer the powers they once advance to power. It is also likely that Russian about Bosnia and about Kosovo wonderful consumer products— were has driven the U.S. to look Accordingly, we wish him good luck. Not only for him, but more commercial and to some degree in particular, where the Turks but not as a serious factor in for new partners as it seeks to importantly, for all of Greece. political penetration of countries feel ties of religion as well as world politics. build a liberal world system in like and (to historical memory and sympa- Many Asians welcomed the the 21st century. say nothing of Cyprus and thy. Stability in places like possibility that the euro would But Americans expected a Dangerously Postponing Policy Greece) is going to become eas- Bosnia and Kosovo remains challenge the dollar as the slow and gentle decline, with ier. Those countries will be hurt- fragile and at the moment rests world's reserve currency. An- many years in which t o make a ing from the general slowdown largely on EU power and pres- other currency with deep and gradual adjustment to the We had begun to worry after seeing how slow party leaders had in Europe. EU aid budgets could tige—supports that are now liquid capital markets would change. We hoped that the euro been to form a government… Maybe it’s the heat wave in Greece. be cut or redirected if the crisis growing steadily weaker. give Asian investors more op- and the single market could mit- But the policy of delaying important decisions is not in keeping deepens, and issues like judicial NATO will be damaged by tions and might help reduce the igate or even reverse that de- with the crisis-mode in which Greece finds itself and with the im- transparency and reform will the crisis. All across the EU, a kind of American power that is- cline. We have also taken for portant meetings European leaders expect with the new government. loom less large in a Brussels combination of economic reces- n't always popular in places like granted that the EU would at Greek politicians have probably not yet realized that the oppor- consumed by the struggle for sion, new European budget Beijing. But Europe's helpless- least be able to manage its own tunity given to them by the Greek people has a cutoff date. The the euro. Europe's East will be rules and the pressure to main- ness in the face of its slow-burn- neighborhood, bringing peace, clouds from the euro crisis are gathering ominously and there is a less deferential to its West as tain social spending in a time of ing currency crisis has not cre- security and integration to the danger that Greece’s problem will be forgotten. this crisis drags on. austerity is pressing on defense ated confidence in the single Balkans and drawing countries Antonis Samaras, the new prime minister, has pushed things Elsewhere, the euro crisis has budgets. For years, bo th Demo- currency or given Asia new re- like Belarus, Ukraine and even along as fast as he could. But the other parties’ leaders are trying reinforced Turkey's decision to cratic and Republican officials spect for Europe's p olitical wis- Russia toward Western ways. to hide their participation in this government by issuing written drop its long courtship of Eu- have warned Europeans that dom. We may now have to adjust to a statements, which will end up in the garbage can the next day rope and become an indepen- low levels of defense spending Given all this, expect EU- world in which the EU is retreat- anyway. dent actor. Europe looks less in Europe threatened NATO's vi- backed causes around the world ing faster and farther than any- The day after the elections a positive cl imate began to develop. and less to the Turks like a ability. Those levels are going to to lose steam. The prime exam- one expected. For the first time in three years one could detect some respect model to imitate and more and fall, precipitously in some cases. ple is the campaign for a global This euro crisis isn't just a shown to the Greek people for the choice they made. But this has more like a fate to avoid. Turkey Even France is facing pressure climate treaty. Many observers banking or a currency issue. It begun already to change for the worse. in any case would like to replace to balance its budget, and it is once thought the idea had irre- is a serious political crisis that Analysts looking at the election results are not seeing as much the EU as a major political and hard to see a Socialist president sistible momentum behind it, could dramatically alter the hope in the numbers as they initially did. The party that came economic force in the Arab sparing the defense budget at but with Europe's political im- geopolitical balance in Europe first, New Democracy, won 30 percent of the vote. 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For Greece and its People The Greeks came to edge of found wealth was borders would be and in turn caused many people the precipice but at the last the false dawn of a contiguous with the to seek solace in the extreme minute stepped back. The June new era. Despite geographic bound- ends of the political spectrum. As I write, it there is no realistic 17 election was a close race. The the fact that the aries of Europe. Almost overnight radical parties looks like New mechanism for its centre-right, pro-bailout New euro zone finan- Sadly, geography took centre stage. For the first Democracy and PA- expulsion or even a Democracy party won by a mere cially chained to- trumped economic time, Golden Dawn, a neo-Nazi SOK between them voluntary depar- 3 per cent over the radical left gether all 17 mem- common sense and style party actually acquired 17 will have enough ture. Mrs. Merkel anti-austerity Syriza Party. Al- bers, few efforts honesty. seats in parliament. Syriza, a votes in Parliament must decide if she though the narrow victory of were made to pro- As a result, coalition of 17 left-wing parties, to form a Govern- wants to be the New Democracy is support for vide an economic within 10 years, emerged as a major factor in the ment, albeit with a Chancellor of an ag- the euro zone, a large segment safety net. The Greece faced eco- Greek body politic. Its popular- tiny majority. That gressive and impe- of the population despises the euro zone neither nomic collapse and ity rests almost exclusively on a opens the way for rialistic Germany EU imposed austerity measures. has a pan-Euro- by DR. ANDRE received a €110-bil- platform promising to terminate Greek and European dominating Europe, Like most Europeans, the pean central bank GEROLYMATOS lion bailout. But the the EU austerity measures. In- politicians and the as the Germans Greeks applauded the establish- nor a finance min- bailout came with deed, the Greek election was Greek American by AMb. PATRICk N. tried in 1914 and ment of the euro zone in 1999 istry with the Special to an austerity pack- fought over one issue – the aus- community to rise to THEROS 1939, or of a Euro- and rushed to join the monetary power to regulate The National Herald age that has re- terity measures. the occasion and do pean Germany that union in 2001. Francois Mitter- the budgets and duced Greece to It is not surprising that for the Right Thing. Special to will finally acknowl- rand and Helmut Kohl, respec- deficits of its members. near financial and social col- several days the EU held its Let us hope The National Herald edge that it tried to tively president of France and In effect, the euro is a cur- lapse. Austerity measures were breath while awaiting the re- Messrs. Samaras destroy the conti- chancellor of Germany, were the rency without a home and sub- also imposed on Portugal and sults of the Greek election. If and Venizelos understand that the nent twice and make amends by visionaries behind the euro ject to the political whims of Ireland with corresponding mis- Syriza had formed the govern- Greek people gave them a man- leading Europe towards a unified zone. Both men believed that each of its members. It was only ery on their populations. The ment there is every probability date to rescue Greece from the economy and a further political the EU, followed by the euro a matter of time before the in- policies of the EU, IMF, and the that its hardline policies could disaster into which their parties unification. Germany must take zone, would guarantee no fu- equities of the EU partners trig- Central European Bank were to have resulted in a Greek exit led the country. (If the numbers the lead and cede German sover- ture wars on the European con- gered a crisis. Ten years after use the bailouts as leverage and from the euro zone and all its change, Mr. Tzipras faces the eignty to an independent Euro- tinent and bring about a United the euro zone was created force Europe’s financial miscre- ensuing consequences for Eu- same responsibility.) The Greek pean Central Bank with real au- States of Europe. Kohl and Mit- France, Spain, Ireland, Italy, Por- ants to re-structure their rope and the rest of the world. people demand that they face up thority over all the banks in the terrand had lived through the tugal and Greece were facing economies. Nevertheless, the Greek and to the EU, and especially the Ger- Eurozone. The U.S. Federal Re- horrors of the Second World massive deficits. The plan did not take into euro zone crisis is far from over. mans, demanding policies that re- serve system can be a model with War and placed their faith in the Greece quickly became the account the social carnage the The New Democracy coalition store growth to the Greek econ- the existing national Central belief that a united Europe fo cal point of the crisis because austerity measures would have will only survive if it can ame- omy and not supinely murmur Banks voting in proportion to would ensure peace. it was the first euro zone coun- on Greece and the other recipi- liorate the harshness of the EU “Yah, Mein Frau” to every de- their strengths. Such an ECB must Although the euro zone was try whose debt reached 113 per ents. Unemployment hit 30 per austerity measures. Failure will mand while inventing ridiculous immediately create an FDIC–type to be the precursor for European cent of its GDP. It soon became cent, salaries and pensions were return the Greeks to the edge of new taxes to avoid the tough de- deposit insurance scheme for all unity, little was done other than evident that Greece had “cooked dramatically reduced, and the precipice and next time they cision to cut the bureaucracy. Eurozone banks or they will all the printing of Euro notes. The the books” in 1999 to qualify for strikes and demonstrations be- may just leap into the unknown. The two party chiefs must fail once Greece gets the dominos euro zone eventually came to euro zone membership. The came daily features. Hospitals have the courage to reach out to falling. include 17 EU countries; major Greeks had help falsifying their have begun to run out of critical Andre Gerolymatos is Director every other political party, includ- Finally, Germany must surren- powers like Germany and financial records from the now medical supplies and homeless- of the Stavros Niarchos Founda- ing the fascists and the KKE, and der the conceit that it achieved France; and financially weaker defunct Lehman Brothers. The ness and hunger have increased tion Centre for Hellenic Studies demand they participate in a its modern miracle alone. With- states like Greece and Portugal. bureaucrats in Brussels paid dramatically. at Simon Fraser university in Unity Government, sharing in the out the Marshall Plan and the for- Initially, the euro zone coun- scant attention to the Greek ap- The impact of all these Vancouver, and a regular colum- responsibility of decisions and not giveness of Germany’s debt at the tries prospered but this new- plication so that the euro zone’s changes ravaged Greek society nist for The National Herald. just sniping from the outside. If beginning of the Cold War, there the other parties refuse, then they would be no modern German deserve to be consigned to the State. Further, Germany owes dustbin of history. Further, Greece a lot for World War II and LETTER FROM ATHENS Messrs. Samaras and Venizelos must face up to its responsibilities. must be prepared to forgo the It is thoroughly justified to de- “chair” of the Premiership and se- mand that Greek politicians start Greece Gets a New Troika, but Retains Same Old Faces lect a credible, outsider Head of behaving like adults; it is the Government, if that is what it height of arrogance and folly to takes to bring in the SYRIZA, In- insist that Germany owes noth- Talk about voter fraud. The austerity on every- measures that he posed a first bailout deal of dependent Greeks, and the De- ing. 384,674 Greeks who put their one except their and Venizelos sup- $152 billion when former PA- mocratic Left. Alternatively, they Greek-Americans must also trust and vote in the June 17 rich friends, politi- ported and signed. SOK leader could ask the same broad coali- adjust to the fact that the priority elections in Democratic Left cians, business ex- “I didn’t hear was in power two years ago be- tion to support a professional issues for Greece have changed leader Fotis “Turncoat” Kouvelis, ecutives, and their from his lips … any cause of the harsh measures that non-political cabinet with legisla- as well. Cyprus and Halki are im- a founding member of the Com- political bedfellows. reference to rene- came with it. But once Papan- tive powers. portant issues but they do not munist Youth party of Greece – They endured hu- gotiation,” Tsipras dreou was hounded out of office Only a Government with more pose an existential threat to the type who used to spit on miliation and ha- said, referring to by ceaseless protests, strikes and than 200 votes can confront Eu- Greece. The current crisis does. capitalists until they became just rassment from vot- Samaras’ victory riots, Samaras jumped on the rope with teeth. And confront Eu- Shattered by the Civil War, Greece like them – must he wondering ers – enough of speech in which sinking ship to get into a coali- rope it must, if only to save succumbed to American pressure how in the world they wound whom put Samaras the New Democ- tion with Venizelos and George Greece and Europe from the to defer its claims against Ger- up voting for New Democracy in position to create racy leader did not Karatzaferis, the leader of the dithering and self-serving Greek- many; the time is ripe to renew and PASOK, the two parties that the unholy coali- by ANDY mention his cam- far Right-Wing LAOS party, and bashing (egged on by an irrespon- those claims. We must also stop have misruled Greece for much tion, a new Troika DAbILIS paign pledge to try said he supported austerity. sible and ill-informed media) that business-as-usual: put Cyprus and of the last 38 years, imposed – to come back to to get better deals Karatzaferis jumped over- substitutes for a realistic and Halki on ice and concentrate our punishing austerity measures on power. The late car- Special to for Greece. “I only board too late and paid the price courageous policy among EU efforts on getting American pres- Greeks on the orders of inter- nival huckster P.T. The National Herald heard vows to for it with his party failing to leaders. But Greece must come to sure on Germany to pay its debts national lenders, and after two Barnum was honor commit- get the 3 percent threshold the table with credible proposals, to Greece. elections, are ready to do it wrong. In Greece, there’s a ments, to honor signatures,” needed to enter Parliament, but no matter how painful, that solve Next week the Senate will again. sucker born every second, not Tsipras said. Samaras has not before several of his the problem. A Unity Government hold hearings demanding Ger- New Democracy leader An- every minute. changed his mind so many times deputies betrayed him and must decimate the Greek bureau- many pay more to the few re- tonis Samaras, so desperate to Samaras didn’t mention that on whether he supports or op- joined New Democracy in hopes cracy, bring to heel every single maining victims of the Holocaust. be prime minister you could al- his party and its otherwise bitter poses austerity that no one of being Ministers of Silly Walks one the interest groups that has Between 1953 and today Ger- most see the drool, somehow rival, the PASOK Socialists un- knows – including him – if he in the new government. Sama- held the country hostage, collect many, German companies, Swiss convinced Uncle Fotis to support der new leader Evangelos “Em- does because it’s too dizzying ras has been outmaneuvered in realistic taxes, start judicial ac- banks, and insurance companies another coalition of New peror” Venizelos, had already watching him spin around like this deal by Venizelos, who said tions against corrupt politicians have paid out more than $50 bil- Democracy and PASOK, who destroyed Greece by packing a Tasmanian Devil. while he’ll give his 33 Parlia- in their own parties and, finally, lion in reparations to Israel and shared an uneasy alliance before public payrolls with hundreds Samaras and Venizelos mentary seats to Samaras, who, demand large-scale forgiveness of to millions of individual victims May 6 elections were stale- of thousands of needless work- turned over the keys to Greece now has his own 129 and 17 current Greek debt instead of new of the Nazis. New claims are now mated because no party won ers for generations in return for to the Troika of the European from Kouvelis’ party, which fin- loans, just like Europe did for Ger- being generated. When was the enough of the vote to form a votes, or that they had lied Union-International Monetary ished sixth, behind the Nazis of many after World War II. It must last time that the U.S. Senate held government and Kouvelis about the country’s economy to Fund-European Central Bank Golden Dawn and above only also reopen the file on German hearings on reparations for the wouldn’t join them because he get Greece into the Eurozone of (EU-IMF-ECB) in return for a the anachronistic KKE Commu- war reparations. loss of 13% of the Greek popula- feared being branded a traitor the 17 countries using the euro. second bailout of $173 billion nists of Aleka Papariga who The Europeans (particularly, tion (more than any other Occu- to the left, which he now is. He Or that he would – as he that was on hold until after the could have been Prime Minister the Germans), in turn, have to pied Country) during the German didn’t even have the guts to join promised, vowed, raised his elections because Tsipras said if she joined a coalition with acknowledge reality. Greece can- Occupation? Dachau and the coalition just in case it folds hand to God and signed in he would have torn up the con- SYRIZA and other Leftist parties not survive the “Memorandum” Auschwitz were t ruly horrific; up like the house of cards it is. blood – renegotiate the austerity tract if he won. Samaras op- after the May elections. and the Eurozone cannot survive were they worse than Kalavryta “We will respect the country’s The new Troika has only 48 further dithering. To argue that and Distomo? signatures.” Those were among percent of the popular vote, not those European politicians have The world faces a crisis that the first words a smug Samaras counting the more than 38 per- more courage and less commit- can only be resolved by the great uttered after he barely won the cent of Greeks so disgusted with ment to seeking short-term elec- and courageous. The leaders of elections by scaring the wits out the Game of Thrones that they toral advantage than their Greek Greece and Europe must embrace of workers, pensioners, and the boycotted the elections. Samaras brethren is an oxymoron. To de- a quote from Shakespeare: “Be poor that his rival, Coalition of will control Parliament, but with scribe the EU bailout package as not afraid of greatness. Some are the Radical Left (SYRIZA) Tsipras hounding him, with anything other than a joke gives born great, some achieve great- leader Alexis Tsipras would have Venizelos waiting in the halls for it undue respect. The package ness, and others have greatness reneged on the draconian deals him to fail, with Kouvelis giving simply does not work. It guaran- thrust upon them.” that Greece signed with inter- him half-hearted support, unless tees that Greek debt will increase national lenders to prop the the new prime minister – for and that Greece will default. Any The Hon. Ambassador Theros is country’s essentially dead econ- once – does what he said he redrafted debt relief package president of the u.S.-Qatar Busi- omy. New Democracy and PA- would do, if only reluctantly, and must be based on debt forgive- ness Council. He served in the SOK are back in the saddle tries to jawbone the other Troika ness and not new loans. The wild u.S. Foreign Service for 36 years, again, proving nothing moti- into giving Greece more time to speculation that Greece can be mostly in the Middle East, and vates people more than fear, un- implement more austerity, then expelled or would voluntarily de- was uS Ambassador to Qatar less Greek porno queen Julia he’ll just be another footnote in part from the Euro displays an 1995-1998. He also directed the Alexandratou is in the on-deck Greek history, if anyone would appalling ignorance of how these State Department’s Counter-Ter- circle. What has changed? AP PHOTO/PETROS GIANNAKOURIS even remember who he was. things work. Greece will default rorism Office, and holds numer- New Democracy and PASOK Alexis Tsipras, head of Greece's second-placed Syriza radical and will stay in the Euro because ous Government decorations. created the crisis. They imposed , declined to join in a coalition with Samaras. [email protected] When Profit Transforms into Greed, it Erodes Our Values and Decency as a Society

Winston Churchill famously Let us take a hypothetical Greek- day. Does Dimitri vice and encounter its. Good efficiency is keeping box – and it’s not just with corn- said that democracy is the worst American fellow, Dimitri, who hire more waitstaff? a live person on the the coffeemaker, the fliters, and flakes, it is with food in general. form of government except all decides to open a restaurant. Of course not – that other end who said: the coffee near one another in Morgan Spurlock made a doc- those other forms that have been (Note: “Dimitri” is used here as wouldn’t be consis- “may I help you?” the kitchen in order to save time umentary in 2004 titled Super- tried. The same can be said a generic Greek name, and does tent with maximiz- Nowadays, we get walking back and forth. But bad size Me, about his experiment a about capitalism vis-à-vis eco- not apply to any specific “Dim- ing profits. Instead, a recording that be- efficiency is watering down the year earlier, which consisted of nomic systems. itri” out there.) Suppose that now it takes hungry gins with “press ‘1’ coffee to cut costs. his eating only at McDonalds, Oh, capitalism has its virtues, Dimitri has a simple philosophy: folks twice as long for….” Why is that There is a great deal of talk three meals per day, for 30 days. to be sure. And there is nothing using quality ingredients, prepar- to get their food, be- – because there are about the resurgent auto indus- Among psychological distress, his wrong with making a profit – or ing them well, and providing cause the waitstaff too many callers try. One has to wonder why. cholesterol skyrocketed and he even becoming very rich. In fact, good service will result in a suc- is doing double the now? Well then, Could it be that the metal used did damage to his liver. it would be wrong to place an cessful restaurant. It turns out work. hire more customer in today’s cars is so flimsy that Getting back to our fictitious arbitrary ceiling on the amount that Dimitri is right, and he There are those, by CONSTANTINOS E. service representa- with a little too much pressure – restaurateur, Dimitri – who cer- of wealth that a person is per- makes a fortune. Good for him! of course, who SCAROS tives. Stop obsess- like trying to close a packed tainly represents a great deal of mitted to accumulate. But much Suppose, instead, that Dimitri would sing the ing about maximiz- trunk, for instance – might cause very real people: if he makes his like delicious meat or cheese left makes a good profit – one even praises of con- Special to ing profits. it to crumble like a tin soda can? profit the right way, the just way, unrefrigerated too long can beyond his wildest dreams – but sumerism at this The National Herald Moreover, if a And let us not even begin to the honest way, the moral way, quickly spoil, so can profit that then greed rears its ugly head. point, contending customer wants broach the age-old adage “they then he deserves every penny he deteriorates into greed. No longer satisfied with making that if the quality decreases, so someone to come to the house don’t build houses like they used makes. But if he is captivated by Greed is widely defined as “an a good living but instead ob- would Dimitri’s clientele, and so to replace, say, a defective mo- to,” which becomes truer and the dollar signs attached to all excessive desire,” usually for sessed with maximizing his prof- it would not be in Dimitri’s fi- dem or a faulty wire, perish the truer every day. those profits that fast food con- money and other possessions. It its – the word “maximizing,” by nancial interest to compromise thought! Why, that costs money! That is only part of the glomerates like McDonald’s can be argued that greed is the way, is usually a sign of trou- on quality. Supply and demand. Better to keep the customer tied scheme by which to hoodwink amass, then his customers might morally repugnant and a side ef- ble when it comes to capitalism That may be true, but only to a up on the phone to try a few us into not recognizing what is need to pay a visit to the doctor, fect of selfishness, but it is – Dimitri begins to purchase certain extent. When done sub- dozen alternatives before con- going on. Remember when corn- too. greed’s consequence, more so lesser quality ingredients that are tly, people do not notice the drop cluding that a housecall is nec- flakes were filled all the way to Would Dimitri even care than the greed itself, that is most prepared poorly and hastily by in quality; they get used to it. It essary, after all. the top of the box? That hasn’t about his customers’ long-term destructive to humanity. inferior cooks to whom he pays is like feeding poison to a rat lit- Another word to be wary of been the case for years now. It is well-being, or is he beyond reach Consider as an example a a low wage. And now that busi- tle by little. is “efficient.” Quite often, it is a nifty trick: instead of raising – hopelessly addicted to doing topic particularly well-known to ness has soared, there are more Remember when we used to codespeak for providing less the price, keep it the same, and business “efficiently” in order to Greeks: the restaurant business. customers in the restaurant every call companies for customer ser- value in order to maximize prof- just put fewer cornflakes in the “maximize” profits? 12 VIEWPOINTS THE NATIONAL HERALD, JUNE 23-29, 2012 Answers to Observers Who Wonder: “Who Are Those Greek People, Anyway?”

By Andy Manatos rare abundance the qualities exist in Greece, the average only religious leader of a nation that make economies flourish. Greek citizen had more net occupied by Germany to publi- The world media has made And, it is these qualities that are worth than the average Ameri- cally stand up against the Holo- clear that the June 17 Greek certain to bring Greece back can. caust. One in ten Greeks died, election bodes well in the short from the brink. The light at the But do the Greeks have the but they never gave up fighting term for the economies of end of the Greek tunnel is the courage to endure what they the greatest threat that the mod- Greece, Europe, and America. glow of the intelligence and must to rise above these dire cir- ern world has ever seen. Their reassuring reports indicate courage of the people of Greece. cumstances? Greek-Americans’ A Russian field marshal, that the trusted and able lead- Greeks are polar opposites of military record suggests so. Hitler’s chief of staff and the ership of Antonis Samaras will the dimwitted depiction by the George Dilboy of Massachusetts U.S. Undersecretary of State keep Greece in the Eurozone. media. Greeks living in America was called “one of the ten great- corroborated the statement of But the question still remains, give us some insight into the est heroes of WWI” by General British Prime Minister Winston what about the long term? Is qualities of the Greeks living in John Pershing; Lt. General Gus Churchill when he said, “if there there light at the end of the tun- Greece. Greek-Americans al- Pagonis is considered the logis- had not been the virtue and nel of Greece’s economic crisis? ways rank among the highest in which US News & World Report tidis, Mike Jaharis, James Davis, tics genius of the Persian Gulf courage of the Greeks, we do A major part of the answer educational attainment in Amer- ranks second among all Ameri- George Argyros, Dean War; and Admiral James not know which the outcome of lies in the answer to another ica. Out of the 632 million peo- can National Liberal Arts Col- Metropoulos, and Alex Spanos. Stavridis, today is Commander World War II would have been.” question the public is asking: ple who have lived in America leges and a law school, Harvard, The Pugh Foundation’s recent of the US European Command Churchill also said, “from now “who are these Greek people since Princeton University was which it ranks third among all survey confirms this business and NATO’s Supreme Allied on we will not say that Greeks anyway?” Based on media cov- founded, it was not by chance American law schools. When acumen and natural ambition Commander. fight like heroes but that heroes erage, they appear to be lazy, that the only father and son Ronald Reagan met with Amer- by listing Greek-Americans Once more, the Greeks’ fight like Greeks.” uninformed, and even dimwit- awarded the Moses Taylor Pyne ica’s five top space scientists, among the wealthiest ethnic/re- nearly superhuman courage in Time and time again ted. Could such people possibly Honor Prize, the highest general one of them, Stamatis Krimigis, ligious groups. WWII leaves no question about throughout history, the Greek carry the genes of their ances- distinction conferred on an un- was Greek-born. And Greece And, as was the case with ed- their ability to survive and win people have met seemingly in- tors, who civilized humankind dergraduate, are Greek-Ameri- compares well with the world ucational attainment, those who in difficult situations. The small surmountable odds and fought with the creation of democracy, cans. They are former U.S. Sen- in terms of years of educational most recently came from Greece nation of Greece restored the back from the brink of defeat. modern medicine, philosophy, ator Paul Sarbanes and his son, attainment. They are not far be- are, on average, wealthier than world’s hope when it became So, stay tuned. It may not hap- recorded history, the theater, Michael. hind the and other Greek-Americans. Greeks the first country able to defeat pen overnight, but there is no and organized athlet ic compe- And, as a group, the Greek- Israel. are one tenth of one percent of the seemingly unbeatable Axis question, the Greek people will tition? born who come to America sur- And it is not by chance that, the world’s population, but they Forces. On the first day of recover from these dark eco- Here are some facts, contrary pass other Greek-Americans in based on population, Greek- own 40% of the ships that bring Hitler’s invasion of the Greek is- nomic days. to the media’s image, which we educational attainment. Americans are overrepresented oil to America. And a little over land of Crete, he lost more sol- Hellenes should help the public Greece’s just-elected Prime Min- by 460% on the Forbes list of ten years ago before Greece diers than in any one day of the Andy Manatos is President of understand. The facts make ister Samaras, for example, at- the 400 wealthiest Americans – joined the Euro zone, when war until that time. Archbishop Manatos & Manatos and the Co- clear that we Greeks possess in tended a college, Amherst, George Mitchell, John Catsima- mortgages and car loans did not Damaskinos of Greece was the ordinated Effort of Hellenes. Greek Crises, Greek Resilience

By Aristotle Tziampiris memory, numerous (and at crisis has been condensing po- war, mass immigration abroad, The New York Times times daily) mass demonstra- litical time. Even if the new numerous coup d’états, several tions in the center of Athens, coalition government proves rel- major dictatorships, the 1974 ATHENS — Greece is once where I live, had no anti-Amer- atively short-lived, the passing Cyprus events and near-military again at a crossroads, being at ican content, nor did they con- of structural reforms and launch confrontations with Turkey on the very center of the world’s clude in front of the U.S. Em- of strategic investments such as various occasions. attention and facing unprece- bassy according to a long the E.U.-supported Helios solar Thus, from a historical view- dented scrutiny. Oddly, this sit- established “protocol.” Targets project are now possible. point, the current crisis is neither uation fits well with the national included the German chancellor, Although a national outcry unprecedented, nor even close self-understanding that accords , corrupt national against further austerity mea- to being the worst. It is worth our country (not entirely un- politicians and especially the sures does exist, it is coupled by dANIEl HASKETT keeping in mind that after every justly) an outsize role in Euro- “Troika” (representatives of the an equally vehement demand to catastrophic phase, after every pean intellectual and political International Monetary Fund, end past practices. It is simply cians are entering the scene ment. The modern Hellenic setback, Greece managed to sur- history. But the fact remains that the European Central Bank and unacceptable to slash unem- while some of the parties that state has a proven track record vive, recover and even prosper. Greek society has entered a lim- the European Commission), but ployment benefits but tolerate produced the crisis are in ter- of overcoming much more seri- The resilience and adaptability inal period in which political never the Obama administra- tax evasion, closed shops and minal decline. We are thus ous crises. Consider that in the of the Greek people are not to parties, economic practices and tion. Although it may be prema- waste. Recently, I have even wit- about to experience a society 20th century alone, Greece con- be underestimated. A new diplomatic certainties will ture to declare anti-American- nessed students reminding oth- with new expectations, new de- fronted two Balkan Wars, two Greece will no doubt emerge. slowly be overturned. ism in Greece a thing of the ers that smoking is forbidden mands and new leaders. World Wars, the 1923 mass pop- But we are not quite there yet. In what sounds like a cliché, past, the fact remains that Greek upon the university’s premises Finally, since we Greeks place ulation exchange with Turkey, the key to future developments society has been appreciative of (Greece has notoriously failed so much emphasis on our his- fascist and Nazi occupations Aristotle Tziampiris is associate is held by the youth of Greece. America’s overall support. — so far — to successfully im- torical legacy, it is fair to ask if that included a deadly famine professor of international rela- About half of them are unem- It is now almost an article of plement a nonsmoking ban). history offers any perspective on and the annihilation of its Jew- tions at the university of Pi- ployed, many opted to vote for faith that the solution to At the same time, new politi- the country’s current predica- ish community, a disastrous civil raeus. radical left parties in the recent Greece’s sovereign debt crisis es- election and none partook in the sentially lies in . However, sins of the past. At my univer- Washington can also decisively sity, class attendance rose pre- address some potential geopo- cipitously and across the board litical and geo-economic perils. Back to the 1930s: the Hammer, Sickle, and Swastika once the economic crisis For example, through its re- gional military presence and in- fluence with NATO Washington By Aristides Hatzis lic. Violence (and its banalisa- Greece until it was replaced by people are disillusioned, miser- For the first time in living can help ensure that Athens will tion), hate, rage, polarisation, the US in the late 1940s. This able, exasperated and very memory, numerous (and at not have to face any additional fear, despair and resignation. As patronage had some beneficial frightened. They seem to be times daily) mass challenges by various neighbor- Ten days before Greece’s for the police, it has already side effects. Greece was always falling into the same trap again, ing states. elections, a member of the neo- taken sides: neo-nazis won by a on the winning side: in the first by rewarding demagoguery, po- demonstrations in the For example, the last thing nazi party, Golden Dawn, re- landslide in polling stations world war, the second world litical opportunism and arrogant center of Athens, where I needed right now are more peatedly hit a female candidate where officers were assigned to war, the cold war. From 1929 ignorance. Their knee-jerk reac- mock dogfights over the Aegean of the communist party while vote. to 1980 Greece had an average tion was to vote for parties such live, had no anti-American Sea between Greek and Turkish appearing live on a television The electoral results demon- growth rate of 5.2 per cent and as Syriza, the rightwing nation- content, nor did they F-16 warplanes, tensions over talk show and threw water over strate the dangers to the Greek was admitted to the European alist and populist Independent Cyprus and disputes about po- a female candidate of the radi- democracy. The centre-right Community as early as 1981 Greeks and the Golden Dawn. conclude in front of the tential energy-related routes cal left Syriza. The communist New Democracy party may have partly as a reward. These parties became vehicles U.S. Embassy according to and rights in the eastern had just called him a “bloody edged ahead, but the parlia- for a popular backlash, gather- a long established Mediterranean. fascist” and he addressed her as ment, for the first time in Greek ing more than 41 per cent of the At the same time, third coun- a “commie”. Greek elites (jour- history, will be full of extremists. Greek extremists may vote. “protocol.” tries such as Russia can be ef- nalists, intellectuals, politicians) Besides the neo-nazis and a Stal- However, more than 50 per fectively discouraged from ef- condemned his violence almost inist communist party there is have lost the June 17 cent of Greeks voted for parties erupted. College students in- forts to cheaply acquire strategic unequivocally. Yet the ugliest Syriza, whose leader is a fan of election, but they strongly committed to European stinctively and immediately un- aspects of the Greek economy part of this incident was the Mao Zedong, and unification. These parties will derstood that after graduation (Gazprom, for example, is inter- readiness of many lay people to Hugo Chvez. It is difficult to haven’t gone away, probably form a government they would be facing a new re- ested in acquiring a stake in defend him, even cheer him, find a notable dictator, even nor are they about to. that must achieve the impossi- ality where political or family Greece’s natural gas company) while the neo-nazis rose in the among the great butchers of the ble: renegotiate better bailout connections could not ensure and thus exploiting the weak- polls. 20th century, without a steady terms and enforce reforms in well-paying public-sector jobs. ness of a country that is a full Unfortunately this episode following in the Greek parlia- The rest is history: welfare the face of fierce opposition In fact, such employment oppor- member of NATO, the E.U. and was not isolated. Despite the ment. The three protagonists of , cronyism, statism and from Syriza. tunities are now, for all practical the euro zone. From a U.S. per- narrow victory of a centrist the dreadful TV incident were corruption can describe the Mario Vargas Llosa wrote re- purposes, non-existent. spective, policies aiming to as- party in Sunday’s vote, almost also elected. Imagine them to- Greek political system for most cently in El Pais that “Greece is Unfortunately, being studious sist Greece would utilize exist- every day extremist violence gether in routine parliamentary of the period from 1981. This is the symbol of Europe and sym- and excelling in academics is ing military and diplomatic breaks out in Athens and be- proceedings. Golden Dawn why Greek people have finally bols cannot be abolished with- not enough to secure a prosper- assets, cost next to nothing to yond. Neo-nazis against immi- members have already made it punished the two former main out that which they embody col- ous future. My best students are U.S. taxpayers and, most signif- grants, anarchists and leftists. clear they would come down parties (New Democracy and lapsing and degenerating into not even entertaining thoughts icantly, contribute to regional Anarchists, ultra-leftists and hard on any member of parlia- the social-democratic Pasok the barbaric confusion of irra- of staying in Greece. Simply put, stability. other fringe groups of the na- ment saying something they party) for leading Greece into a tionality and violence that Greek they all want to go abroad. Ultimately, though, there is tionalist-populist camp against strongly disapprove of. horrible economic crisis with civilization libe rated us from”. What is most interesting is that only so much that international riot police, mainstream politi- How did Greece, the birth- huge debts and deficits and a Yet Greece is only a small the first choice of the very best actors can or should d o to assist cians, journalists, liberal intel- place of democracy, come to corrupt, inefficient state, unfit step away from civil unrest and is not Germany or Britain but Greece. Long-lasting solutions lectuals, even artists. Add to this have a parliament full of ham- for reform and captured by spe- total collapse. It does not de- almost always the United States. to the myriad examples of cor- a surge in crime and rising tol- mers, sickles and swastikas? cial interests. serve this. Europe has the power This attests not only to the undi- ruption and inefficiencies that erance of violence and you have This is not how it was ever This failure of the main- to push us off the cliff but also minished attraction of the Amer- have been so effectively exposed a clearer picture of today’s meant to be. After winning in- stream political system and of the ability to hold us back and ican system but also to a sea- by the world’s media can only Athens. Does it remind you of dependence in the late 1820s, the short-sighted, growth-sti- save us. This is not just an eco- change in popular attitudes emerge from within our society. anything? Greece was attached to the west fling austerity policies enforced nomic decision; it is largely a toward the United States. On this front one can be guard- That’s right. Greece’s situa- and particularly to the UK, by the European leadership led political decision. A fatal mis- For the first time in living edly optimistic. The economic tion recalls the Weimar Repub- which protected and patronised Greece to the precipice. Greek take will haunt Europe for ever. Belgium and Germany are the Culprits, and Greece is a Victim in All of This

By Paul Krugman So, about those Greek fail- substantially lower in Greece Greeks squandered much if not revenues. Luckily for Florida, in the teeth of the evidence, that The New York Times ings: Greece does indeed have a than in, say, or Germany, most of the money that came Washington rather than Tallahas- all the currency’s troubles were lot of corruption and a lot of tax countries that have so far weath- flooding in, but then so did see is picking up the tab, which caused by irresponsible behavior Ever since Greece hit the evasion, and the Greek govern- ered the European crisis pretty everyone else who got caught up means that Florida is in effect re- on the part of those Southern skids, we’ve heard a lot about ment has had a habit of living well. in the euro bubble. ceiving a bailout on a scale no Europeans, and that everything what’s wrong with everything beyond its means. Beyond that, So how did Greece get into And then the bubble burst, at European nation could dream of. would work out if only people Greek. Some of the accusations Greek labor productivity is low so much trouble? Blame the which point the fundamental Or consider an older example, were willing to suffer some are true, some are false — but by European standards — about euro. flaws in the whole euro system the savings and loan crisis of the more. all of them are beside the point. 25 percent below the European Fifteen years ago Greece was became all too apparent. 1980s, which was largely a Texas Which brings us to Sunday’s Yes, there are big failings in Union average. It’s worth noting, no paradise, but it wasn’t in crisis Ask yourself, why does the affair. Taxpayers ended up pay- Greek election, which ended up Greece’s economy, its politics and however, that labor productivity either. Unemployment was high dollar area — also known as the ing a huge sum to clean up the settling nothing. The governing no doubt its society. But those in, say, Mississippi is similarly but not catastrophic, and the na- United States of America — mess — but the vast majority of coalition may have managed to failings aren’t what caused the low by American standards — tion more or less paid its way on more or less work, without the those taxpayers were in states stay in power, although even crisis that is tearing Greece apart, and by about the same margin. world markets, earning enough kind of severe regional crises other than Texas. Again, the state that’s not clear (the junior part- and threatens to spread across On the other hand, many from exports, tourism, shipping now afflicting Europe? The an- received an automatic bailout on ner in the coalition is threatening Europe. things you hear about Greece and other sources to more or less swer is that we have a strong a scale inconceivable in modern to defect). But the Greeks can’t No, the origins of this disaster just aren’t true. The Greeks aren’t pay for its imports. central government, and the ac- Europe. solve this crisis anyway. lie farther north, in Brussels, lazy — on the contrary, they Then Greece joined the euro, tivities of this government in ef- So Greece, although not with- The only way the euro might Frankfurt and Berlin, where of- work longer hours than almost and a terrible thing happened: fect provide automatic bailouts out sin, is mainly in trouble — might — be saved is if the ficials created a deeply — per- anyone else in Europe, and much people started believing that it to states that get in trouble. thanks to the arrogance of Euro- Germans and the European Cen- haps fatally — flawed monetary longer hours than the Germans was a safe place to invest. For- Consider, for example, what pean officials, mostly from richer tral Bank realize that they’re the system, then compounded the in particular. Nor does Greece eign money poured into Greece, would be happening to Florida countries, who convinced them- ones who need to change their problems of that system by sub- have a runaway welfare state, as some but not all of it financing right now, in the aftermath of its selves that they could make a behavior, spending more and, stituting moralizing for analysis. conservatives like to claim; social government deficits; the econ- huge housing bubble, if the state single currency work without a yes, accepting higher inflation. And the solution to the crisis, if expenditure as a percentage of omy boomed; inflation rose; and had to come up with the money single government. And these If not — well, Greece will basi- there is one, will have to come G.D.P., the standard measure of Greece became increasingly un- for Social Security and Medicare same officials have made the sit- cally go down in history as the from the same places. the size of the welfare state, is competitive. To be sure, the out of its own suddenly reduced uation even worse by insisting, victim of other people’s hubris.