Word: averoff
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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...
...Larousse relented. Bowled over by the Attic charms of a new Greek cultural attaché in Paris, the publishers announced that grec in their forthcoming centenary edition would be defined solely as an inhabitant of Greece or that which pertains to Greece. "In these matters," said Attaché George Averoff, "official notes are no use. I got to know Larousse's publisher. I got to know his wife. We had dinner-and the matter was fixed...
Tommies in tanks had recaptured the ruins of the Averoff prison which ELAS had used as a fort. After it fell, resistance collapsed. With all but a third of the capital recaptured, reinforced British troops prepared to drive out the remnant of ELAS forces. In driblets ELAS riflemen retreated by winding paths over the hills and melted away into the countryside. Into the streets, behind them, marched British troops and Greek Government Militia, pelted by flowers from shattered windows. Said a perplexed Tommy: "Blimey, I'll never get the hang of these people. First flowers, then bombs, then flowers...