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kind of statement for this group that was suffering so because their colleagues, their brethren, were suffering in Cyprus. And on every occasion -- the archbishop has invited me to various Greek rallies and has always been very nice to me.

On the most recent one... And I've been upset with the Greeks, because the Greeks have been anti-Israel. The Cypriotes even worse. The Cypriote Greeks -- Makarios and others -- have not only denounced Israel in the UN but have led the fight to censure Israel, whereas the Greek government has never recognized Israel -- have only had de facto instead of de jure relations with them. I think they abstained on the anti-Zionist resolution whereas the Cypriote government voted for it. So I've been really distressed about this, and on the last occasion where there was a dinner, this time in Astoria, the archbishop was not there but others were there and they asked the members of Congress -- there were about five or six that came -- to get up and speak and I wanted to allude to it and I said, “I want everybody to know that I hope that you will do all that you can for my people as you can be sure I will do for your people.” People came over to me and said, “Oh, we have, we have. It was in Cyprus that the Jews were able to stay until they could get into Israel,” Palestine at that time. But they knew what I was talking about.

After the anti-Zionist vote I wrote a letter to Iakovos and I sent copies to Brademus and Sarbanes and Rosenthal. In the letter to Iakovos I said, “Your Eminence, it's because I feel