OPINION

June 20-25, 1957

TOURISM DEVELOPMENT: At meetings chaired by Prime Minister Constantine Karamanlis, the discussion focused on efforts to achieve a considerable improvement in tourism this year. Various decisions were taken regarding the organization of tourism services and powers were delegated accordingly. Based on available figures, it appears that during the first five months of this year, 76,844 tourists arrived in the country; during the same period last year, the figure was 62,534, marking an increase of some 22.88 percent. These figures do not include cruise ship passengers who come ashore at Greek ports, who, according to all indications, have also been increasing in number. AGHIOS EFSTRATIOS: Two senior police officials have returned from an inspection tour of the internment camps on the island of Aghios Efstratios, in the northeastern Aegean, where some 540 communists are being held, and will file their report to the interior minister within the day. The officials were not able to speak privately to the inmates due to the system of mutual surveillance in the camps. They saw that the exiles are mostly unrepentant communists and idlers who have never worked but sit around and talk politics at every opportunity.

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