Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once the Greeks and the Turks reached their offstage agreement in a Swiss hotel (TIME, Feb. 23), the other parties to the dispute found little room for maneuver. The British demanded-and got-sovereignty and access rights to their military bases on the island as the jump-off point for British operations in the Middle East. But by the terms of the settlement the British were forced to give up another shred of empire without much say about how it was done...
Greek Premier Constantine Karamanlis put it to Makarios bluntly. The Greek government was already bound by the Zurich agreement and had no intention of going back on it. Karamanlis laid down an ultimatum: take this agreement or bear the blame for wrecking the conference. With twelve hours to decide, Makarios spent the night "in prayer and reflection." Next morning at 8 he summoned his advisers, told them that he had decided to accept the agreement. The steamroller had worked...
That afternoon, the delegates approved the "agreed foundation for the final settlement of the problem of Cyprus" (Makarios had wanted to call it only "a basis"). After the three Prime Ministers signed the agreement in Menderes' hospital room, Harold Macmillan went before the House of Commons to pronounce it a "victory for reason and cooperation ... a victory...
...sense of relief but not yet of exhilaration. Their first responses were tentative and uncertain. Seven hundred young Turkish Cypriot students paraded through Nicosia, shouting the old cries-"Death to Makarios!"-but were easily dispersed. In one town Greek church bells pealed for 20 minutes after the London agreement was announced, then stopped. No one was quite sure how to react. What would happen to Colonel George Grivas, mysterious leader of the EOKA terrorist underground, who once pledged himself to keep on fighting, no matter if everyone else gave up? Would he be pardoned by the British, sit down with...
Last week, a century later, the Anglo-Egyptian agreement to let Suez bygones be bygones was being held up largely because of the claims of one Iraqi-born Jewish British subject to property in Egypt. This time, far from boasting of its readiness to defend each and every subject of the crown, Britain's Treasury spokesman insisted: "We have never, never said the name of Smouha...