The Eastern Question: The Last Phase has been out of print for some years, although it has survived the test of time and continues to be widely quoted by scholars dealing with the vital decade of the twenties in Greek-Turkish relations.
As a result of continued demand for the book and its usefulness for understanding the present in Greek-Turkish relations, it is being presented here in a second printing, but with a new introduction by Professor Van Coufoudakis, in the Modern Greek Research Series of the Queens College Center for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. The author is grateful to the Institute of Balkan Studies in Thessaloniki, Greece, for permission to reprint his original text and to Professor Coufoudakis for his timely introduction and for his encouragement to see this project through to completion.
He is also indebted to Leandros Papathanasiou of Pella Publishing Company and to numerous scholars and individuals concerned with Greek-Turkish relations for their support and encouragement. He also wishes to acknowledge a very special debit to the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation and to the New York City Council and its president, Peter F. Vallone, for grants which helped make this publication possible.
