April 21, 1956
GREECE AND THE WORLD BANK: New York: Greece’s representative at the United Nations, Mr Christos Xanthopoulos-Palamas, today told the UN’s Economic and Social Council that Greece had been virtually ignored since it had received absolutely no help with its postwar economic reconstruction. The Greek representative stressed that the European Economic Committee had designated Southeastern Europe as an underdeveloped region, including Greece, Italy, Turkey and Yugoslavia. Yet the World Bank had granted loans to all of those countries except Greece, even though it was the country that had sustained the greatest wartime damage. The principles on which the loans are granted, he said, should be implemented without concern for political considerations. YIANNIS KEFALLINOS: An exhibition of engravings by Professor Yiannis Kefallinos opened yesterday at the Fine Arts Academy in the presence of King Paul and Queen Frederika. Also on show were works by Kefallinos’s students Louisa Modesantou, Georgios Varlamos and Nikos Damianakis.
