ABSTRACT
The British Council magazine The Record, which ran from 1947 to 1955 was undoubtedly of a provincial cast, in appearance and content alike, in no way comparable to the remarkable Anglo-Greek Review in Athens or the congenial Prosperos of Corfu. The state of affairs after the German withdrawal in 1944 was pretty bad and remained so after the arrival of British troops. The notorious 'December events' exacerbated the hatred that a section of the population had for the British, though nothing of that sort took place up in Thessaloniki, where the political leadership showed greater prudence. It was not long before the Cyprus rising broke out and gave the final blow to the so-called Anglokratia. Between these two dates a British literary influence squeezed itself in, culminating at the time of the award of the Nobel Prize to T. S. Eliot in 1948.
