September 2, 1944. The time of the German Collapse was now near. The Political Committee of National Liberation (PEEA) dissolves and EAM (the National Liberation Front, major resistance group during the German occupation in Greece) participates in the government of national unity under George Papandreou.

On September 2, 1944, a regular Saturday dawned for Hortiatis. The residents woke up starting their every day chores. Many left the village for their usual farming activities.

Nothing bode for the disaster that was about to follow, although the German forces had lately hardened their attitude, also due to their emerging collapse.

The Diolkos, the unique stone-paved slipway that was first built around 600BC, enabling Greek warships and merchantmen to be moved overland across the Isthmus of Corinth from sea to sea, is progressively crumbling into the water at its western end as the result of erosion and neglect.

After the excavations ending around 1960, this monument of first-class importance for the history of technology and for the Greek achievement in general has been left at the mercy of the wake of the vessels passing through the Corinth Canal.

Usually people think ancient monuments are left to decay because there are so many of them and there is shortage of funds. This is not true, at least as far as Diolkos is concerned.

There continues to be a lot of talk about the infamous "Macedonian" alphabet book (Abecedar), which was republished by the Skopjan propaganda in 2006 (following a previous edition in 1993, by the the Skopjan Diaspora in Australia). The most aware among us will certainly remember the presentation of the Abecedar in Thessaloniki. Among the present were Pavlos Voskopoulos1 of the Rainbow party, which had co-financed the book, Michael Tremopoulos of the Greens'  party and the .. "Grecophone" Mr. Yannis Konstantinou2, who most recently was appointed as President of the T.I.F.! (Thessaloniki International Trade Fair)

But was the notorious ABECEDAR originally published for them;

The peripatetic few of the Rainbow party and other "proud descendants of Alexandrofski" proclaim loudly any chance they get about their "supressed large minority" in Greece, as well as about human rights, which are uniquely never applied in Greece. (Despite the fact that the Greek state never opposed to them creating Ouranio Toxo (Vinozito)3, an anti-greek political party, to have headquarters both in Florina and Edessa, or even issue their own newspaper, which allows them to sling mud against Greece freely).

They mislead and lie by calling "Macedonian" a book that was the result of concessions to ethnic minorities back in 1924-25. Bulgarian and Greek minorities however.. Needless to say, Tito's invented "macedonoids" were not even a consideration 20 years prior to Tito "creating" his noble race of Skopjan macedonoids!

History, as always in the case of the FYROM, reveals the truth they are vainly trying to distort. Documents of 1924 serve to prove that the "Macedonian" Abecedar was in fact Bulgarian!

The question of Northern Epirus at the Peace Conference
Published by the Pan-Epirotic Union of America, 1919

By Nicholas J. Cassavetes
Honorary Secretary of the Pan-Epirotic Union of America

Chapter 3

History of Epirus

1. Ancient

We need not go further back than to Homeric times. In the sixteenth book of the Iliad, verse 233, we read:
''Zeus, King, Dodonean, Pelasgian, who dwellest afar, Ruling Dodona, the wintry, where sit around your altar the Selles, priests who never wash their feet, and sleep on the ground."

And in the second book of Iliad, verse 749, in the enumeration of the ships of the Greeks against Troy, Homer says: "Him followed the Enienes, and the war-like Perrhebeans, Who dwell around the wintry Dodona."

And in the Odyssey, book 14, verse 327, Homer says: "And ordered him (Odysseus) to go to Dodona where he would hear from the divine and tall oak-tree the will of Zeus, In order to return to his dear native land secretly or openly."

The question of Northern Epirus at the Peace Conference 
Published by the Pan-Epirotic Union of America, 1919

By Nicholas J. Cassavetes
Honorary Secretary of the Pan-Epirotic Union of America

Chapter 1 - The Epirotic Problem

History of the problem

By Nikolaos Martis

WW II Veteran and Former Hellenic Government Minister

The Allies on May 9, 2010 celebrated, as they do every year their Victory and the end of WW II in Europe in 1945. Particularly extensive celebrations to mark the 65th such anniversary took place this year in Moscow, in the presence of Heads of States, with parades of allied armies, and with special solemnity. In the Axis defeat in Europe, Greece contributed significantly. This fact has been ever since very much neglected, although at that time it was admitted openly by leading personalities of WW II.

In 1942, Moscow’s radio station broadcasted to Greece, during the anniversary of the entry of the German troops in Athens: "Unarmed you fought and won fully armed military hordes. You struggled small vs. big, and you prevailed. It could not be any other way, because you are Greek. Due to your prolonged resistance, Russia gained time to prepare to defend itself. We Thank you”.

Ancient Greece has influenced the western world in a variety of aspects, but the most important element of our modern society, Democracy, was the key element to American Independence. In a speech delivered at the White House on March 9th, President Obama described that influence.

“And so it was that the democratic example of a small group of city states more than 2,000 years ago could inspire the founding generation of this country, that led one early American to imagine that “the days of Greece may be revived in the woods of America.”

“It’s the sense of nobility and morality written in the pages of those timeless Greek texts, which have instructed students — and tormented them — down the ages, in every corner of the world.”

Vardar Macedonia, the latest proposal of Mathew Nimetz, the UN mediator on the name dispute between the FYROM and Greece, is the most suitable name for the Albanians because it can be decoded only in the Albanian language. (!) Also, the names of Macedonia and of the Vardar River have a meaning only in the Albanian language. (!!)

Historian Skender Asani, showing documentary evidence, said that the term, Macedonia, was a geographic, not an ethnic term.  "The name, Macedonia, can be deciphered only with the Albanian alphabet and the term 'Vardar Macedonia' is an old term and this is evident from many documents and other sources from the antiquity," Asani said.  He explained that, according to the great German scholar, Han, the term Macedonia has its origin from the Illyrian word, "e matja," which means large.

(They obviously can't tell left from right...)