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Our Historical Archive
San Francisco Call Bulletin
January 18, 1919. This article is reprinted below.
Notable Greek Papers Issued by Oaklander
Eleutherios K. Venizelos, premier of Greece is greeted as "the modern Ulysses" and the "greatest statesman Hellas ever had," in a special
edition of "Prometheus," just issued by the Hellenic Library, an organization for the forwarding of Hellenic art, culture, life and ideals,
ancient and modern.
It is a nicely gotten-up paper, assembled and published under the direction of George D. Pappageorge-Palladius, 2607 Fruitvale avenue,
Oakland. Palladius is also editor and publisher of a quarterly review issued by the Hellenic Libary.
Chief among the articles printed in "Prometheus" is a front page "Appeal to America," voiced by John N. Metaxa, former governor of Salonika,
Greece. After relating, briefly, the history of Greeks' wrongs at the hands of the Mohammedans, he concludes:
"Now that the supreme moment is at hand, when, at the peace table, the fate of Hellenism will be decided, enemy influences are being exerted
to mislead the American people and to circumvent the rules laid down by President Wilson, whereby all people should be free to determine for
themselves their own existence. Therefore, we say, let the American people be on their guard and, with wise discrimination, pluck forth this
poisonous weed and in its place sow the seeds of everlasting love and gratitude that will unite forever the people whose ancesters, more than
2,000 years ago, first established and used this Greek word, "democracy", and the great free nation of the new world, which has carried the
old idea to its present perfection."
Whereupon he urges, briefly, the support of America to the demands which Premier Venizelos will make at the peace conference, among which are
included the return to the motherland, Greece, the Greek regions of Epirus, Macedonia, Asia Minor, and the islands of the Dodecanese.
Prometheus contains many well written articles in English. A large part of the paper is printed in Greek, and carries pictures of prominent
Greeks of the bay cities.
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