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This category consists of 910 artefacts. These are telegrams that were sent by or to political figures, MPs and ministers, mainly during the 1950s-1970s. Most of them are messages offering congratulations or best wishes traditionally exchanged via telegraph for greater formality. Recipients and senders include Nikolaos Plastiras, Alexandros Papagos, Georgios Papandreou, Konstantinos Karamanlis, Panagiotis Kanellopoulos, Sophocles Venizelos, Philippos Mavros, as well as kings Paul and Constantine II. Of particular interest are the telegrams sent by various political figures or associations from all over Greece to the mayor of Rhodes on the occasion of the Union of the Dodecanese with Greece in 1947.

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14/02/1966. Telegram from the vice president of the government Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas to the National Confederation of Grocers of Greece, in which he thanks them for their invitation, but informs them that he will not be able to attend. (ΜΤ-020089)

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12/02/1966. Telegram from MP of Athens District II Philippos Mavros to the National Confederation of Grocers of Greece. (ΜΤ-020091)

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13/06/1967. Thank-you telegram from Constantine II to the President of the National Confederation of Grocers of Greece, P. Vasileiadis, for the congratulatory message he sent regarding the birth of the prince. (ΜΤ-020100)

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16/12/1963. Telegram in which the sender, the president of the Government Georgios Papandreou, invites the recipient to participate in the first meeting of the Supreme Advisory Board for Economic Development, following the Victory of Centre Union in the elections of 3 November 1963. (ΜΤ-020721)

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1946. Konstantinos Tsaldaris asks People’s Party MP Miltiadis Varvitsiotis to make sure he attends the plenary session of Parliament (ΜΤ-021489)

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07/05/1954. Telegram sent by the President of the Federation of Taxis and Luxury to Field Marshal Papagos and the members of the Cabinet, in order to express the vigorous protest of the drivers’ sector regarding the bad condition of the road network in the Prefecture of Patras. (ΜΤ-021508)

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17/03/1933. Telegram on stationary of the National Bank of Greece, very possibly addressed to minister of Finance Spyros Loverdos, in which the sender asks that he intervene in the matter of the adjudication of a case pertaining to the execution of a will. (ΜΤ-021856)

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09/04/1923. Thank-you and congratulatory telegram sent by Nikolaos Plastiras. (ΜΤ-021890)

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07/01/1938. Congratulatory telegram sent by the government Youth Commissioner Alexandros Kanellopoulos to the Education Association ‘Prometheus’. In 1936 Alexandros Kanellopoulos was appointed government commissioner of the National Youth Organisation (EON), the government youth organisation that was founded by Ioannis Metaxas’ regime in 1936 and which was disbanded in April 1941. (ΜΤ-021897)

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22/08/1939. Telegram from Helsinki to Athens from Olympia (clearly an abbreviation of the Finnish Olympic Committee) to V. Vekiarellis, director of the Athenian Press Agency, whom the Finns were asking to inform them whether Greece would be participating in the 1940 Helsinki Olympics. The Greek response was negative, as is evident from the handwritten note, “impossible to commit regarding the 1940 Olympics”, as the outbreak of World War II was expected. (ΜΤ-021962)

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23/09/1965. Telegram in which the minister of the presidency of the Government Emmanuel Kothris thanks William Rees for his congratulatory telegram on the occasion of his undertaking the office of minister in the government of St. Stephanopoulos. Kothris was a “deserter” of the Centre Union, and in the telegram he stressed that he did his duty, according to his conscience, to his “ailing” homeland. (ΜΤ-022026)

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30/09/1965. Thank-you telegram sent by the prime minister of Greece Stefanos Stefanopoulos in response to the congratulatory telegram sent by William Rees on the occasion of his election to the office of prime minister. (ΜΤ-022027)

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04/11/1963. Congratulatory telegram to Stylianos Mavromichalis in which the sender expresses his emotion at the announcement of the conclusion of his term as acting prime minister and his return to his duties as president of the Supreme Court. (ΜΤ-022182)

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03/07/1957. Telegram in which political leaders Georgios Papadreou and Sophocles Venizelos inform the community leader of Pachtouri, Georgios Christakis, that the Liberal Party had provided for the road connection of Trikala to Arta. They highlight the virtues of the mountain residents of Aspropotamos, their abandonment by the state, and their support of the community’s request for the construction of the Trikala-Arta road. (ΜΤ-023178)

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02/09/1950. Message of gratitude sent by Field Marshal Alexandros Papagos to Thessaloniki. The document bears the stamp “Field Marshal’s Office - General Staff”. (ΜΤ-023340)

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31/03/1947. Congratulatory telegram from the mayor of Heraklion to the mayor of Rhodes, Gavriil Charitos, and the people of the Dodecanese, on the occasion of the union with Greece. On 31 March 1947 the English left the Dodecanese and on 1 April 1947 the SDD (Dodecanese Military Command) was established by the Greek state. (ΜΤ-023634)

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