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Talk about The Story of Comex in Song continues unabated. There are lots of suggestions, but the project envisaged would require talent and funding. Enthusiasm is not enough. Old tapes are examined, cut and pasted together. Bum notes are removed by repeating the good bits and talking over the obscure ones. In the Holy Land, on the Comex 1 route, Yair, the fifteen year old grandson of the late Nikola Vrbos (friend and guardian of Comex through the old Yugoslavia then a Communist country), made a personal pilgrimage to the church of The Nativity in Jerusalem on Christmas Eve, to light candles and play Little Green Flags on his mandolin. Because this is a true story it has probably found its way into the charts in Heaven. If so, why not a little inspiration on Earth, echoing from the ancient land routes that made us what we are before the aeroplane came (the words of Hassan on the mountain of Kop in Turkey). Those ancient land routes had brought Greg to the office of Jawaharlal Nehru to solicit his support. The Indian Government decide to organise a Commonwealth Youth Festival to encourage a new consciousness in the Commonwealth, and set up a Steering Committee with representative from all missions in Delhi. Greg is invited to be a member. In the event the festival idea is dropped – not by India but for want of Commonwealth support. To preserve Nehru's vision a Commonwealth Expedition, which became known as Comex 1, is mounted under the patronage of Prince Philip.
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