Information for Cyprus
The Colonial Office has been criticised in the Spectator and elsewhere for its failure to provide Cyprus with an information service fit to represent the British case effectively and to counter the incessant barrage of Enosis propaganda. In spite of, this it did not, apparently, think it worth while to announce here the appointment of a Director of Information Services. The excellence of the choice—a really imaginative one for once— makes this reticence the more surprising. The new director is Mr. Laurence Durrell, who has an intimate knowledge of the Hellenic world. During the war he Was in the British Foreign Service, first in Greece and then in Egypt, and when Rhodes was liberated he was responsible for getting the island's news- papers running again. He is well known as a poet and as the author of two of the best travel books—one about Corfu and the other about Rhodes—published in recent years. His under- standing of Greek and the Greeks is formidable, and there can be few men with a more sensitive appreciation of all that Greece stands for. The most ardent philhellene could find no fault with this appointment.
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