Word: averoff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Only Tactful." As soon as Greek and Turk reached agreement in Zurich, the Foreign Ministers of the two countries flew off to sell it in London. ("It would seem only tactful to inform the British government," purred Greece's Evangelos Averoff-Tossizza.) With equal promptness, Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd summoned to London Dr. Fazil Kuchuk, leader of the Turkish Cypriot community, and swart-bearded Archbishop Makarios, whom the British exiled from Cyprus three years ago on charges of encouraging violence. This week the prelate whom the British press called a terrorist will sit down with Selwyn...
Greek Foreign Minister Evanghelos Averoff and his Turkish counterpart, Fatin Rustu Zorlu, expressed optimism for winning British approval of the plan to make Cyprus an independent republic. The plan was approved at the Turkish-Greek conference of five days in Zurich, Switzerland...
...disorder's reign, and are making private efforts to narrow their differences. Greece's Ambassador to Turkey has been shuttling between Athens and Ankara, setting the stage for a meeting in Paris this week between Turkish Foreign Minister Fatin Rustu Zorlu and Greek Foreign Minister Evangelos Averoff-Tossizza. Greece is moving closer to abandoning its cry of enosis (union with Greece) and Turkey its demand for partition, in favor of eventual independence for the island, with rights of the Turkish minority guaranteed...
...every turn, Spaak, 59-year-old former Socialist Premier of Belgium, met with suspicion, delay and doubletalk. "If the general public could sit in on these talks," declared one who had sat in, "they would be appalled at the haggling." "Barring war," declared Greek Foreign Minister Evangelos Averoff-Tossizza, Greek-Turkish relations "could hardly be worse...
...During Averoff's two-day visit, Cyprus was discussed-but Greece, after all, already has Tito's and Nasser's support. The Egyptians recently played host to Archbishop Makarios, the exiled ethnarch of Cyprus: anybody feuding with the Turks and angry at the British can count on Nasser's blessing...