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With that warning signed, Colonel George Grivas, leader of the Greek Cypriot terrorist underground, EOKA, last week ended his truce with the British authorities who rule embattled Cyprus. It came as news to many Britons on the island that there ever had been a "truce." In the previous week one British soldier had been killed and four wounded in a seven-hour gun battle in which they killed four EOKA men holed up in a barn near Famagusta; on the streets of Nicosia, a British airman walking hand-in-hand with his wife was murdered by three EOKA gunmen...
Massive Boycott. Britain's "partnership" plan, introduced last June, had run into massive resistance from the Greek majority. Under it, Cyprus would get limited self-government with separated Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot legislatures; Turkey and Greece would each appoint a special representative to advise the British Governor. Turkish Cypriots, who had been holding out for partition, grudgingly accepted "partnership...
Chain-smoking Cypriot cigarettes, Foley puts in 80 hours a week at the Times office, drives his editorial staff (four Britons, six Foley-trained Cypriots) with querulous sarcasm. ("How many Cypriots," he is likely to cry, "care enough about the British cricket test matches to want to be told they've been rained off in one-inch type?") Foley will order replates by phone from his bed to keep up with the island's latest explosion, blithely ignoring groans from his Greek printing staff...
...modifications were all designed to temper Greek objections to any plan that might draw Turkey into governing the island, or lead to an eventual partitioning of the island between Turk and Greek Cypriots. In revising his plan, Macmillan 1) deferred his proposal for dual citizenship for Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots; 2) established separate municipal councils and houses of representatives for Greek and Turkish Cypriots, but hoped that in the future some all-in-one legislature would be formed; 3) decided that delegates from Greece and Turkey would be invited to serve as "advisers" to the British Governor instead...
Hundreds of leaflets bearing this terse message fluttered through the streets of Nicosia one evening last week just before curfew. Men and women, waiting until British military patrols rounded the corner, furtively scooped up the leaflets, eagerly read the truce offer of Colonel Grivas, leader of the Greek Cypriot EOKA. Next day the British government -still seething at the recent murder of Lieut. Colonel Fredrick Collier as he watered his flowers at his bungalow near Limassol-was officially silent. But the nameless leader of the Turkish Cypriot underground movement, T.M.T., also agreed to call off all attacks "until further notice...