We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could, for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality, please give them back.

We are ready to say that we rule the entire Elgin enterprise as irrelevant to the present.

In the world over, the very name of our country is immediately associated with the Parthenon.

England and Greece are friends. English blood was shed on Greek soil in the war against fascism, and Greeks gave their lives to protect English pilots.