Athanase George Politis (; 24 March 1893 – 4 April 1968,

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) was a

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and

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, ambassador to the

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(1941–47) and to the United States (1950–54), who also represented his country at

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regional conferences. He had also "spent more than thirty years in his country's legations and embassies in Egypt, England, Japan." He resigned "in disagreement with the

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policy of the Greek Government."

Writings

* ''L'Hellénisme et l'Égypte moderne'',

Félix Alcan Felix Mardochée Alcan (March 18, 1841 – February 18, 1925) was a French Jewish publisher and scholar, born in Metz. He was the grandson of Gerson Lévy, author of ''Orgue et Pioutim'', and son of Moyse Alcan, a well-known publisher at Metz. ...

, Paris (1929–1930), 2 volumes * ''Les rapports de la Grèce et de l'Égypte pendant le règne de Mohamed Aly (1833-1849)'', Société royale de géographie d'Égypte, Rome (1935)

References

1893 births 1968 deaths Ambassadors of Greece to the United States Ambassadors of Greece to the Soviet Union 20th-century Greek historians Greek expatriates in the Soviet Union {{Greece-diplomat-stub