Word: averoff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third man present was India's neutral-in-arms, Jawaharlal Nehru. Last week, when Tito and Nasser moved their talks (TIME, July 14) to Brioni for fun, games and communiques, another third man unexpectedly turned up. The visitor: Greece's busy Foreign Minister, 48-year-old Evangelos Averoff-Tossizza...
...Premier Constantine Karamanlis' pro-Western government to turn neutralist, and because Greece is bitter at its NATO allies over the Cyprus dispute, the suspicion spread that Greece might be heading off into a neutralists' no man's land. But both Premier Karamanlis and Foreign Minister Averoff insisted otherwise. The Turks described the Greek meeting with Tito and Nasser as attempted blackmail. The Greeks replied that they were merely conferring with a next-door neighbor and Balkan Pact ally (Yugoslavia) and a Mediterranean trading partner (Egypt, where 100,000 Greeks live). The Greeks were undoubtedly looking around...
Greece, declared Averoff, is not claiming Cyprus for herself, would even be willing to see the island become an independent state. Eloquently he called upon the Assembly "as a tribute to liberty" to pass a Greek resolution demanding self-determination for Cyprus...
...joust began with an assault on Britain by Greek Foreign Minister Evangelos Averoff-Tossizza. Much hung on Averoff's performance. If he failed to win Greece a respectful hearing in the U.N., Premier Constantine Karamanlis' shaky pro-American government would be in deep trouble. (During a recent Greek parliamentary debate on Cyprus, Karamanlis was called "traitor" a dozen times within an hour...
...logical material for negotiation" and Lennox-Boyd's partition talk "an interesting, attractive idea." Yet one high British official who should know insists that "partition could never work because . . . you would have to shift whole villages. There is no one area where Turks predominate." Greek Foreign Minister Evangelos Averoff denounced the British plan as "illiberal and undemocratic" and angrily pressed Greece's demand for a U.N. debate on self-determination for Cyprus. In Cyprus itself, the port of Famagusta was closed down by a protest strike...