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...that Lord Radcliffe. the eminent constitutional lawyer who arbitrated the tangled boundaries between new India and new Pakistan in 1947 would be sent to Cyprus to work on "the framework of a new liberal constitution." Then Eden set about fencing in Radcliffe's area of maneuver. Radcliffe may confer and chat with British officials on Cyprus and "any others who may wish to speak to him," said Eden, in fact with anyone except the man who mattered most, the exiled Greek Cypriot leader Archbishop Makarios. "If the Archbishop were to take action to denounce the terrorism," Eden conceded...
...interests must be satisfied. A guaranteed continuance of the British military base, on an island free in time to determine its own political future-would that satisfy Turk, Greek and Briton? Last week the British announced that General Sir Gerald Templer, chief of the Imperial General Staff, would shortly confer with Turkish Premier Menderes. Everybody at least seemed to be trying...
...Governor Sir John Harding flew back to London to confer with the Eden government last week, his security forces announced the capture of 17 E.O.K.A. terrorists in a mountain sweep. The announcement was timed to support Sir John's report that the tough policy on Cyprus is starting to pay off. With sharp, soldierly precision, Harding told a closed-door meeting of 300 M.P.s at Westminster how it works: only when terrorism is stamped out will the "fertile vacuum" be created in which new, moderate Cypriot leaders will emerge...
Although the CRIMSON realized that the Geneva Conference did not signalize a change in basis Soviet aims, it was generally felt that personal pledges not to begin a third--and last--world war were important gains and that a continual creative approach in diplomacy indicated by the atoms-for-peace and "open skies" disarmament plan, was after all the best one. Thus, it urged that a realistic view of Soviet aims need not prevent the development of East-West contacts: trade with Russia in non-strategic materials and the exchange of professors and students between the two countries, as well...
...Panama's invitation Ike's press secretary, James Hagerty, went to the isthmus last week to confer with President Ricardo Arias and help set up press and cable arrangements. On White House instructions he also discreetly learned "Dickie" Arias' golf handicap (an impressive two) without revealing Ike's. For his part, President Arias solved the ticklish problem of the presidential suite. He reportedly decided that he himself will occupy it as his conference headquarters...