The Story Of Andreas

Nicholas, wake up! Wake up, Nicholas! What's the matter? Italy is just delivered in ultimatum! Well, stop shouting, it's three in the morning. What did you say? The Italian government has just delivered an ultimatum to Greece!

What for? Don't ask me, they gave us three hours to answer! Wait a minute, I'm coming right down! Bring your gun, Nicholas! Greece is already answered at least! The answer is no! Listen, four years ago, war came to the people of Greece.

This is how it came. You may believe me, for I know. My name is Katina Paxinu. To some of you, I'm known as an actress, but I speak to you now as a citizen of Greece.

Listen, before that night of four years ago, if you had come to my house in Athens, I would have given you a cake of Cissami and T'Hane and fetched you a cup of wine. On my table there would have been for you a dish of the sweet olives of Patras or the pointed

olives of Calamata, and perhaps outside there would have been the cry of a boy selling Jasmine, a cry I knew well and liked very well. This was before the war, and now it is all gone.

In Patras now, the olive tree lies in the grove splintered by the bum. The boy's selling jasmine is dead. Much that was listener is gone, and much that remains is starved and bitter and pale with hate.

Now you shall hear a story, a story of one called Andreas. While I did not know him, doubtless he lived, for his story lives, and it is a story of Greece. The NBC University of the Air presents through the courtesy of the Hollywood Victory Committee Brian Donlevy starring in the title role of the story of Andreas, with Dina Andrews as