ABSTRACT
In the field of cultural relations, it is instructive to note the changing uses of language: concepts and terms which have been fashionable, pejorative or ideologically loaded at various times. This chapter describes the non-political problem in the context of cultural relations, mutual respect, trust-building and exchange, with regard to Greece in the period 1945-55. Particular Council initiatives included the teaching of English, but political messages always came along with the language tuition. A glance at two English-language novels of the period, both published by major trade publishers, can help illuminate some of the atmosphere of the time and the issues with which British Council staff were forced to engage. The first novel is Rex Warner's Men of Stones: a Melodrama, published in London by The Bodley Head in 1949. The second novel is Daniel Nash's My Son is in the Mountains, published in London by Jonathan Cape in 1955.
