“[…] a Greek journalist, whose sole weapons were his personality and pen, wanted and was able  to bring Greece into the mouths and minds of the most significant figures of our century.

And also to bring the thoughts and opinions of all those who set the world’s course in the 20th century to the attention of the Greeks, and all of this in an age when the stars of art, science and politics were at their zenith, having not yet been demystified by the many media and the speed and directness of information.

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All the interviews in this volume […] are handed down to you exactly as they were published […]

The firm “International Cultural Relations” has delivered this selection of interviews by Alekos Lidorikis as a contribution by a precursor in Greece of the idea of European integration; an idea which this country has just now begun to understand, and which the firm was created to promote.

This publication was made possible with the sponsorship of the Ministry of Culture […]” (Prologue to the book, p. 11, 12)