As we enter a new year, it is important to establish our spending plan. The business meeting on Thursday the 17^th of August is the date set to develop a spending plan suitable for presentation to the membership in the September meeting for approval.

Don't forget Tuesday, August 1, is our general membership meeting. Meeting is set for Saints Constantine and Helen's Senior Citizen Center at 7:00 PM. The major item on the agenda is the Scholarship Committee presentation of the winners of this year's scholarships. Look forward to seeing you.

The months of September, October, and November should prove very interesting. September's guest speakers will focus on the 501 (c) (3) aspect of our foundation. Guest speakers will focus on the business plan activities and project activity considerations. The October meeting will consist of a dinner honoring Art Pathe for his honorable service to the chapter as our president for the past three years. Date and place to be announced. The meeting in November will be held on the 14^th. Election day is the 7^th, and the center will be used as a polling place. Our guest speaker for this meeting will be Maria Pantelia. Ms. Pantelia is the director of the TLG program at the University of California, Irvine. The TLG program is involved in the computerization of the history of Greece. To date, the history through the Byzantine period has been completed. Come hear what has been done and what is to be done.

As a reminder, August 19^th is AHEPA's 9^th Annual Day at the Races. See the flyer in this issue of TA NEA for details.

Our best wishes to D.A. George, who continues to work diligently for AHEPA on one foot.

Costa Brown

If at first you don'y succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

Nothing is as inevitable as a mistake whose time has come.

Best Wishes and CRONIA POLLA to the following Brothers who are celebrating birthdays:

Peter Mellos 8/1

Napoleon Zerzas 8/2

Harry Koutrouvelis 8/3

Peter Stacy 8/8

Jim Stathes 8/11

Nick Aivaliotis 8/14

John Ronis 8/19

George Chachas 8/19

John Koufoudakis 8/28

Ioannis Kapsis 8/31

Happy Anniversary!!! to the following Brothers and their lovely brides who are celebrating wedding anniversaries:

Emmanuel & Catherine Theodorakis 8/3

Vince & Paulette Janikas 8/5

George & Despina Dramby 8/22

John & Angie Anas 8/26

George & Mary Regas 8/29

Meeting Agenda - The following is the meeting agenda for the next Social/General Chapter Meeting, being held at SS. Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church's Senior Citizen Center, Tuesday, August 1, 2000:

Supreme Convention Report

District Convention Report

Ways and Means Committee Report

Budget Committee Report

Golf Tournament Committee Report

Scholarship Committee Report

Old Business

New Business

Good of the Order

General Business Meetings - General Business Meetings are held every third Thursday of the month. The next meeting will be Thursday, August 17, 2000, at SS. Constantine and Helen Senior Citizen Center at 7:00 p.m. All Officers and appointed officers are expected to attend. Any interested members may attend. Come and see your administrative board at work planning and coordinating for better functions and best events for the membership.

Costas Lyrintzis Memorial Scholarship Fund -

Brothers, we of the Hellenic Community of San Diego must keep Costas' memory alive, and we can do this by instituting a memorial scholarship in Costas' name. Please send your tax deductible contributions, in any amount to: Order of AHEPA, c/o George Polos Chapter 505, P.O. Box 2682, Del Mar, CA 92014.

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This newsletter is budgeted to be funded and made possible by those that place advertisements into the publication. We have run some issues without Ads and we must not allow this to continue to happen! If we wish to continue this publication we must encourage more advertiser submissions.

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Please Notify Us - Should you know of any Brother recovering from illness or surgery, or known to be hospitalized, please notify Brother Alex L. Rigopoulos at (619) 233-7158 or (619) 469-9239.

Newsletter Entries - Please direct all newsletter announcements for "TA NEA" to the editor: Brother D. A. George, (858) 273-2868, FAX (858) 273-0416 or e-mail: dageo@worldnet.att.net. All entries must be received by the 20th of each month.

(This is the conclusion of the Goebbels diary accounts presented in last months issue of TA NEA. This final installment covers the period from mid-April, 1941 to the total occupation of Greece by Germany in May, 1941.)

As the entries about Greece testify, the reports reaching Goebbels' desk are (understandably) often exaggerated and shaped so as to satisfy both the Gauleiter as well as the German public. The diaries, moreover, hint at Goebbels' own prejudices and distortions aimed to sustain morale. The euphemisms abound in an effort to sanitize atrocities. Burning a town after killing all the males is here described as "mopping up operations." Meanwhile, Greece's and Yugoslavia's defenses are by now eroding before the Nazi juggernaut, and Goebbels' admiration for the defeated warriors is only matched by his contempt for Churchill and the English.

16 April 1941 (Wednesday): The Serbs are making a last stand at Sarajevo. But they are being badly harried by us and are putting up little resistance. Likewise the Greeks: our troops are already on Mount Olympus. ...Guidelines for propaganda: hit hard against England for her attempted escape from Greece. We are seeking to discredit her in the most comprehensive fashion. And succeeding. The Turkish press, for instance, has turned very cool toward England. And the proximity of German troops probably also has something to do with this... We hit home relentlessly...[and] it has been reported from Athens that England has ordered the Greek fleet to provide cover for the Tommies' withdrawal. This is really the height of cynicism. A regime cannot sink any lower... England is completely discredited.

Though unequivocal, the comments against the departure of the English prove erroneous, since on the next day's entry Goebbels reports that the English are fighting next to their Greek allies, and fighting hard.

17 April 1941: The English are showing their mettle now. They are fighting alongside the Greeks. Our headlines probably had something to do with it. The resistance is very stubborn, with the result that our progress in Greece has been slow.... We have, of course, reached our aim in keeping them in Greece. Our losses are not as serious ar we had feared at first. Four hundred killed at the Rupel Pass.... A battle is raging on Mount Olympus between our men and the allied Greek and English forces...

18 April 1941: In Yugoslavia... we are now mopping up. In Greece, on the other hand, extremely stiff resistance... We shall soon see..."

It was on April 18, in fact, that Goebbels arranged for a secret German transmitter (called "Fatherland") to broadcast messages of intimidation and distortion to all the Greeks that could hear them. "Athenians," screamed one such message, "don't drink the water. Death awaits you. The reservoir at Marathon was contaminated by your friends the British." Another advised the people to loot the foodstores and to defy their "Anglophile lackies."

With the Fuhrer's victory almost complete, Goebbels now becomes interested in the internal politics of Greece.

20 April (Sunday): Serbia finished. Only mopping up now. The advance in Greece is gathering momentum. Our flag flies on Olympus. Larissa in our possession. The Greek Prime Minister Kozyris has died suddenly - whether he died naturally or did away with himself is unclear - and his successor is our friend Kotzias. The King intends to take the government of the country into his own hands. This could mean a compromise course. But no precise details are yet known. In any case Kotzias is on our side, as I have gauged often enough. We shall wait and see. Greece, it seems, is slowly beginning to waver.

English embarkations at Piraeus have now been confirmed. The British are clearing off. We play up Kozyris' death as assassination by the British. It is probably true, anyway. ...The U.S.A. is now heaping blame on Churchill because of Greece... Meanwhile he fantasizes on; he has already raised the number of our fatal casualties in Greece to 60,000. Our casualty figures are, in fact, astonishingly low, thank God. Churchill has to have something to toss to the angry mob. The techniques that he is using are long established in English history.

21 April 1941: The breakthrough in Greece is now complete. The enemy is pouring back in disorder. We are snapping at his heels. Our Stukas are doing magnificent work.... Greece's situation is hopeless. Kotzias has resigned his position. Probably got cold feet. It is better this way. He should keep himself ready for the final collapse. We should put him to good use then. I forbid the press to attack him...

22 April 1941: We are driving beyond Thermopylae... The Greek King has appealed to the people to fight on. A lackey of the English. I had him salvaged in the foreign language service. We are putting out a very subtle form of anti-British propaganda. [British propaganda] is burbling about mountains of German corpses in Greece. This is the excuse for retreat. A gang! A lying gang!

24 April 1941: The LuFwaffe sinks 40,000 tons of enemy shipping, mainly in Greek waters... We are really twisting the knife regarding the casualty figures.. Everyone is waiting for the general surrender of the Greeks.

26 April 1941: Still very heavy fighting in Greece. Our Panzers wrought miracles.

By this time, General Tsolakoglou had capitulated to the Germans and had signed the final surrender document, while agreeing to serve "the Fuhrer of the German people" in Greece, even before the imminent capture of Athens. An inept, contemptible puppet, Tsolakoglou was to be executed in 1945, after the liberation of Greece. Goebbels mentions him only once, and that in passing. ?he Stukas drop leaflets telling the people that the SS have come to rescue them from their English masters.

27 April 1941: Thermopylae was not taken by direct assault, but outflanked. Heroic effort by our mountain troops. Thebes is in our hands... Road to Athens open... Strong indications of panic in Athens. We are advancing remorselessly German paratroops have taken Corinth. Euboea is in our possession. From there we shall move back on to the mainland. Lemnos is also ours.

28 April 1941: Our capture of Athens is the big sensation in all the world press...

Eager to praise the Reich's victories, Goebbels, never comfortable with the Italians anyway, berates them for wishing to share and get credit for the glories of the German victory in Greece. Hitler was to make a good number of concessions to Mussolini, including much involvement in the occupation of Greece. Goebbels is displeased but always obedient to his Fuhrer.

28 April, 1941: The Italians are behaving in a brazen, arrogant and downright objectionable fashion. Mussolini has published a letter to General Cavaliero in which he claims the victory in Greece as his own.... Our people feel something close to hatred for the Italians. Where will it all end? WE shall do all that we can to keep morale here buoyant. Now the Italians are claiming the whole of Greece for themselves. I fear a very bad reaction so far as public opinion in Germany is concerned.

30 April 1941: With the Fuhrer. Discussion of the situation. He is quite sad to have had to attack Greece in the first place. The Greeks have done nothing to deserve it. He intends to treat them as humanely as possible. The Italians are doing the opposite. By their behavior they are earning nothing but hatred and increasing our popularity. Mussolini, for that matter, is anything but loyal to us. But we must remain silent at the moment. Breker who is also present is very sad. [Arno Breker was a leading German sculptor and a member of Hitler's own circle.] His wife is Greek. Our entry into Athens was welcomed by a section of the Greek population... .We watch our entry into Athens on the newsreel. The Fuhrer finds it hard to enjoy it, so moved is he by Greece's fate. All the fault of our Herr Allies. Professor Breker shows us designs for sculpture that will form part of the Triumphal Arch. Indescribably beautiful and yet monumental...

3 May 1941 (Saturday): Fighting at an end in Greece. Crete is to be taken by parachute troops. Otherwise the issue has been settled.

All through the days to come, the hunger and the disease, especially in the larger cities, will eliminate hundreds of thousands of Greeks. Patriots by the dozens are brought before the firing squads; whole towns and villages are burned to the ground, factories are confiscated; the whole infrastructure of Greek life is demolished. In the meantime, the trains transport thousands of Greeks and Greek-Jews to the concentration camps. Yet Goebbels, on May 4, 1941, writes this in his diary: "The war in Greece is over. Scarcely any feelings of hatred towards us on the Greeks' part, but all the worse so far as the Italians are concerned."

For the rest of the entries in Goebbels' diaries (and they go on for hundreds of pages until the end of 1944) there are few and scattered references to Greece. One such mention is worth noting. It is in regard to the fact that the resistance of Greece delayed the Nazi assault on the Soviet Union - a delay that eventually caused the Germans to be deterred in their world conquest by the forbidding Russian winter. In a long entry for 13 June 1941, Goebbels also includes this:

The Fuhrer gives us a comprehensive explanation of the situation: the attack on Russia will begin as soon as all our troops are in position. This will be sometime in the next few weeks. The campaign in Greece cost us dear in delays and this is why it is taking somewhat longer than anticipated. They have about 180-200 Divisions at their disposal, perhaps rather fewer, in any case about the same as we...Bolshevism will collapse like a house of cards.

The Propaganda Minister of the Third Reich continued to serve the Nazi cause with alacrity and dexterity until final defeat... As the Nazi military machine rumbled on in its path of destruction, Goebbels' diaries kept filling up with more distortions, more biased assessments, more sinister chauvinism and more persistent dedication.

Hitler in his last will and testament was to appoint Goebbels as the new Chancellor of Germany. That was on April 29, 1945. The next day, after poisoning his six children [five girls and a boy], Joseph Goebbels and his wife, Magda, committed suicide in the garden of the Reich Chancellery in

Berlin.

April, that "cruelest month" for Greece in 1941, was also the month of retribution four years later for Goebbels and his Fuhrer.

(Taken from the April 14, 2000 issue of THE GREEKAMERICAN and re-printed with their permission).

An item in The New York Times regarding the only male belly dancer, performing frequently in the Arab world, had a Greek connection. Mousbach Baalbaki, 28, has been stirring things up in Beirut with his artistic belly-dance performances at the nightclub of Michel Elefteriades (both the club's owner and Baalbaki's enthusiastic promoter). Though some traditionalists are perturbed by Baalbaki, he is respected by those who have watched his dancing. The Times report includes this description: "Sinuous and seductive, dressed in a gauzy black caftan over a Bedouin-style white robe, he undulates on stage with a faraway look in his eyes and a bodyguard close at hand." Elefteriades explains the appeal of Baalbaki by saying that "if he wasn't an artist, he would have been arrested long ago."

Here is a beginning! Greece will be producing its first car. It will be designed by the Greek Car Industry early next year and it will be a small, 4-cylinder, 3-door convertible with flexible interior. The company will be able to produce 400 vehicles annually and will seek to expand its activities to the manufacturing of products used by the civilian population, according to company chairman Lykourgos Sakellaris. At first, the automobile company will target the car-rental market and younger consumers.

For reasons open to speculation, Israel, during the end of March and the first three weeks of May, blatantly violated the air space of Cyprus, not with one or two or three aircraft, but with over one hundred (!). Greek Cypriot Defense Minister Socrates Hasikos explained that for a short time, after President Clerides had visited Israel, the violations had stopped, but again after a while they resumed. The provocations had puzzled Cypriot officials as they waited for an explanation (reconnaissance? muscle-flexing? to what purpose?). Finally, a few days later, the Israeli Ambassador to Cyprus, Shemi Tzur, came forth to apologize, though without an explanation for the violations.

Having recently visited the otherworldly region of Cappadocia, where Orthodoxy has left its indelible imprints, I know I would have been choked with emotion if I had attended the Easter liturgy performed by Patriarch Bartholomew there recently, after 73 years of Greek Orthodox absence.

A segment on May 14 in "CNN World Report" involved the only small Greek Paper still being published in Turkey. It Is a six to eight page publication called Apogevmatini, now in its 73^rd year of existence. The publisher is an aged and ailing former doctor. The five-minute segment showed the keeper of a small Greek grocery store reading the paper, and what impressed me most was that next to the feta, the olives and the thimari could be seen a large photo of Kemal Ataturk on the wall. I call that practical loyalty.

The Greek Culture Ministry has issued two CD-ROMs based on the life of the inimitable Melina Mercouri. The two disks contain the actress/politician's whole life in highlighted segments from her years as an actress, as a revolutionary against the Papadopoulos dictatorship and a parliamentarian and Minister of Culture. The CDs are accompanied by a 55 minute video which includes highlights from her illustrious film roles, her songs, interviews and her appearances on television.

According to The New Yorker (May 29), sixty-five year old Paula Vlachos was watching "The Charlie Rose Show" one night and saw her father's face in a photograph that advertised the Metropolitan Museum's recent Walker Evans Photography retrospective. The photo, never before seen by Paula, was taken in 1929 by Evans, the famed photographer, and it showed her father, Nicholas Sclavakis, with two friends having lunch in a diner. Vlachos remembered going to that same diner with her father as a young girl, and she sought to get copies of that unplanned, extemporaneous photo. Her brother and his family came from Florida so as to view the photograph at the Met exhibit. Nicholas Sclavakis, the father in the picture, was a Greek from Constantinople who came to the U.S. in 1920 and died in 1958.

Recruiting efforts are under way as Greece is struggling to assemble its first baseball team for the 2004 Olympics [as host country Greece qualifies to compete in all 28 sports and 296 events]. One of the most attractive possibilities is Dodgers first baseman Eric Karros, though in August 2004 the major league pennant races will be healing up and Karros will be needed by his team. Baltimore owner Peter Angelos has been looking at the minor leagues, scouting college teams for possible recruits, and hopes to persuade former major league pitcher Milt Pappas to join the Olympic project as a pitching coach. One thing is clear: even if a team is formed, Greece will remain the land of Homer, not of homers.

A wonderful tribute to three wonderful philhellenes - sponsored and organized by the American Hellenic Council of Southern California - took place on March 21 at the St. Sophia Cathedral in Los Angeles. Honored were Prof. Marianne McDonald, a philanthropist and founder of the impressive Thesaurus of Lingua Graecae; Dr. James Kallins, a generous and active force for things Hellenic; and Congressman Bob Filner (D-Calif.) a member of the Congressional Hellenic Caucus and a loyal defender of Greek causes.

For the second time, Greek Australian Steve Anastasiadis has been brought into court in Ioannina on charges dating back to April 1994 when, it is alleged, Anastasiadis masterminded the armed robbery of a gas station in New South Wales. Two accomplices are already serving time in that part of Australia, but Anastasiadis has fled to Greece, joined the Army and has been stationed in Samos. Australia has asked for his extradition, but Greece refused and will now try the 31 year-old fugitive in loannina.

Recent Easter celebrations in the city of Kavala are worth noting. Hundreds a citizens contributed to what they called "The Feast of Love." In keeping with tb precepts of Christian compassion, the Kavaliotes prepared a gigantic gathering on the grounds of the Apostle Paul Church where they provided a feast for all the poor and indigent citizens of the area. Roasted lambs, and other traditional delicacies, fed more than 300 needy people who were joined in this "Feast of Love" by the families of those who had made this Easter possible.

Here is a word for word item from ATHENS NEWS (17 May, 2000): Health Minister Alekos Papadopoulos said yesterday that there were too many doctors in Greece, adding that the situation is bad for the public health. Papadopoulos was speaking at the 26th annual Panhellenic Doctors conference. Doctors in Greece constitute double the number needed, Papadopoulos said. Yet despite the vast number of medics, state hospitals still do not have enough. Papadopoulos emphasized that too many doctors are a waste of money, they exacerbate unemployment and burden the health ministry's budget. Problems with the National Health system are not quantity but quality related, Papadopoulos added, stressing that it was time for quality to be improved.

Well put! Another such glut in need of streamlining is, of course, the lawyers in Greece.

(Re-printed here by permission of The GreekAmerican).

An eyewitness account from New York City on a cold day in December:

A little boy about l0-years-old was standing before a shoe store on the roadway, barefooted, peering through the window and shivering with cold. A lady approached the boy and said, "My little fellow, why are you looking so earnestly in that window?"

"I was asking God to give me a pair of shoes,"

was the boy's reply.

The lady took him by the hand and went into the store and asked the clerk to get half a dozen pairs of socks for the boy. She then asked if he could give her a basin of water and a towel. He quickly brought them to her. She took the little fellow to the back part of the store and removing her gloves, knelt down, washed his little feet and dried them with a towel. By this time the clerk had returned with the socks. Placing a pair upon the boy's feet, she purchased him a pair of shoes.

She tied up the remaining pairs of socks and gave them to him. She patted him on the head and said, "No doubt, my little fellow, you feel more comfortable now?" As she turned to go, the astonished lad caught her by the hand, and looking up in her face, with tears in his eyes, answered the question with these words:

"Are you God's wife?"

A pregnant woman gets into a car accident and falls into a deep coma.

Asleep for nearly six months, she wakes up and sees that she is no longer pregnant. Frantically, she asks the doctor about her baby.

The doctor replies, "Ma'am, you had twins! A boy and a girl. The babies are fine. Your brother came in and named them.

The woman thinks to herself, "Oh no, not my brother -- he's an idiot!" Expecting the worst, she asks the doctor, "Well, what's the girl's name?"

"Denise," the doctor says.

The new mother thinks, "Wow, that's not a bad name! Guess I was wrong about my brother. I like Denise!"

Then she asks the doctor, "What's the boy's name?"

The doctor replies, "DeNephew."

Dear Sisters,

I hope everyone is having a wonderful summer! As this message is being published, my groom and I are enjoying ourselves on an exotic vacation. I will share all particulars of this adventure with you upon my return and when we meet at our next meeting, Tuesday, September 5, 2000.

Yours in Theta Pi,

Joanne Pathe

4 cooked medium California artichokes, chilled

2 tablespoons lemon juice

1 medium avocado, peeled and diced

Cocktail Sauce (recipe follows)

3/4 Cup cooked, shelled small shrimp*

Parsiey sprigs, optional

Toss avocado with lemon juice until well-coated; drain. Remove center petals and fuzzy center from chilled artichokes. Spoon 1 tablespoon Cocktail Sauce into center of each artichoke. Toss together avocado and shrimp; spoon into artichokes. Top each with 1 tablespoon Cocktail Sauce. Garniqh with parsley. Pass remaining Cocktail Sauce as dip for leaves. Serve immediately. Makes 4 servings.

Cocktail Sauce: Combine 3/4 cup EACH chili sauce and ketchup, 4 teaspoons prepared horseradish and 1 tablespoon lemon juice; mix well. Chill. Makes 1 1/2 cups sauce.

Basic Artichoke Cookine Directions: Wash artichokes under cold, running water. Cut off stems at base and remove small bottom leaves. Cut off top 2 inches of artichokes and discard. Trim leaf tips, as desired. Stand artichokes upright in a deep stainless saucepan large enough to hold snugly. Add 1 teaspoon salt, 1 tablespoon lemon juice and enough boiling water to cover by 2 to 3 inches. Cover; boil gently 30 to 40 minutes or until just tender (base can be pierced easily with a fork). Plunge into cold water to stop cooking; remove and turn upside down to drain. Cool to room temperature. Cover and chill in the refrigerator until ready to assemble. (Cooked artichokes can be stored in the refrigerator up to a week.)

*Cooks Tip: Six ounces canned or frozen small shrimp, thawed if necessary and drained may be substituted.