stopped. It
was more than a month later that I was told what had happened. The
transmitter causing the problem was located in Kandy, Ceylon. It
operated with a rhombic antenna beamed to R.A.F. Calcutta. Its
frequency was only 500 Hz away from GIN. The department which had
allocated the frequency never imagined that it could possibly cause
interference in Europe to the REUTER news service. But sunspot cycle
20, which was a good one, had decided otherwise.

In 1947 I was transferred to the British Police Mission to Greece,
which was headed by Sir Charles Wickham. My principal duty was to
interpret for Sir Charles, and for his second in command Colonel
Prosser. My friend Mr Eleftheriou at the Ministry issued me with a
special licence and I came on the air again using my pre-war callsign
SV1RX. When the Police Mission closed down in 1948 I came to England
and got the callsign G3FNJ which I have now held for over 41 years.

8. Wartime Broadcasts from Cairo.

Elias Eliascos, a former teacher of English at Athens College (a
joint U.S./Greek institution) described to me how he came to be a
news-reader at Radio Cairo in 1941 together with his brother
Patroclos.

"When Hitler declared war on Greece and after the collapse of the
front in northern Greece and in Albania, my brother Patroclos and I
were summoned to the British Embassy in Athens and told that owing to
our close ties with the British Council (of Cultural Relations), it
would not be prudent for us to remain in Athens or even Greece after
the German army had occupied the capital. We were told that we would
be helped to leave Greece together with the British Embassy staff, the
staff of the British Council and all the British nationals in Greece.

"The British Consul-General provided us with the necessary
documents for my brother and me to board the last evacuation vessel
sailing from the port of Piraeus. It was the s/s 'Corinthia' which
left Piraeus on the 18th of April 1941. It happened to be Good Friday
according to the Greek-Orthodox calendar. About five days later
Hitler's army marched into Athens.

"The ship was packed and the British Embassy staff carried most of
the Embassy files with them. One of the passengers was David Balfour
who was the vicar of the little chapel attached to the Evangelismos
Hospital, an impressive tall figure of a man sporting a large black
beard. Although he had been ordained as a priest of the
Greek-O