ABSTRACT
In her memoir An Affair of the Heart, published in 1957, the celebrated film critic Dilys Powell, who years before had been married to the Director of the British School at Athens, wrote of her return to the Greek capital in 1945. Still harbouring the 'remembered magic' of pre-war days, Powell conjured up her uneasiness at that time, even the consciousness of a threat. Irredentism offered just one aspect of the basic problem at the heart of British engagements with Greek public affairs: a search for the ever-elusive grail of 'moderation' and the 'middle ground'. Geoffrey Chandler, with wide personal experience of northern Greece in the 1940s, later provided an assessment in The Divided Land: An Anglo-Greek Tragedy. The modus operandi of the British and American Missions is important. The Greek authorities had no direct access on supply questions to London or, much more importantly from 1947, to Washington.
