Isle of Greece
Sir: My family is grateful to you for your mention of our ill-treatment by the erratic Socialist government of Greece (Portrait of the Week, 10 November). But we are not only suing them for £1 million for stealing our forest in Euboea — which Lady Byron helped my great-grandfather to buy in 1832. We have also lodged a formal com- plaint with the European Commission who are seized of it at this moment.
We hate to think what would have happened to us if I had not learned some political know-how in nearly 20 years in Parliament, had my father not been a world figure, and had I not been able to raise £75,000 in this country to tide us through 10 years of illegal, unconstitu- tional and discriminatory harassment by Professor Papandreou's regime.
Our fate should be a warning to poten- tial foreign investors; and also give my friends the Greek shipowners in London food for thought.
Francis Noel-Baker
5 Cresswell Gardens, London SW5
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