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...Jeopardy. British retreat from Cyprus, said Menderes, would mean "an international disaster," and would upset the whole "delicate balance" of the 1923 Lausanne Treaty, under which-after much bloody fighting between Greek and Turk-Turkey formally ceded Cyprus to Britain and ceded many of the offshore islands and Western Thrace to Greece...
...setting Cocteau retains Thrace but he brings the action up, or perhaps the audience back, to the present. Orpheus, ably portrayed by Paul Schmidt as full of moodiness and intensity, becomes a young poet dissatisfied with success. In disgust he turns his search for meaning to the sayings spelled out by a horse which has followed him home. His wife, Eurydice, however, is left bored by the proceedings, and Susan Howe lends much grace and a sort of charming coquetry to her attempts to snap Orpheus out of his infatuation with the horse. In another departure Cocteau introduces an entirely...
...Greece's top tycoon (worth anywhere up to $80 million). His enterprises run from alpha (for ammunition) to omega (for ore); he is the biggest Greek producer of chemicals, glass, minerals, munitions and wines. Bodo runs, in addition, a string of shipyards, fertilizer and textile plants scattered from Thrace to Crete. His payroll of 14,000 workers gives employment to 8% of Greece's manufacturing work force...
...from Thrace...
Under the Truman principle, General Legion should be fired for trying to widen or spread the war. It would be moral for American boys to die on the brown hills of Anatolia but immoral to help anti-Communist Greeks fight the same enemy on the brown plain of Thrace...