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...Nehru and Nkrumah before they could get a solution." This has been the argument hurled at Britain's Tory government ever since March 1956 when the Eden Cabinet, without the formality of a trial, exiled Archbishop Makarios to the Seychelles Islands for his dealings with EOKA, the Greek Cypriot underground. Last week, in a major gesture of conciliation, the British government accepted this argument. In doing so, it suffered the loss of one of its ablest statesmen and found itself in hotter water at home than ever...
...matter of hours, Greece rejected the offer of NATO conciliation (which Greece had once favored) on the ground that "the Cypriot people cannot be bound by any decision taken in their absence." Mission accomplished, Harding prepared to fly back to Cyprus where British troops inexorably drove on into the mountains, carrying out his orders to crush the last EOKA survivors. The Cypriots-tired of terrorism and tired of counter-terrorism -resigned themselves to more of both...
LONDON, March 28--Britain today ordered the release from exile of Archbishop Makarios in the hope of breaking the deadlock in the dispute over Cyprus. Makarios, leader of the Greek Cypriot "union with Greece" movement, will not be permitted to return immediately to the strife-torn island, however...
Cyprus: Even in this most rebellious of British possessions there was a glimmer of progress. Last week EOKA, the Greek Cypriot underground, offered to call off its two-year-old campaign of terrorism if Britain would free Archbishop Makarios, exiled spiritual and political leader of Cyprus' Greek population. In London Prime Minister Macmillan hastily called a special Cabinet meeting to consider this face-saving way out. Britain until now has insisted that Makarios himself must formally denounce EOKA terrorism...
...their terrorist war against the British, the Cyprus EOKA (Union-with-Greece underground) has shot innocent people in the back, killed unarmed captives and committed other crimes. On their side, the Cypriot police and Britain's Special Branch have gradually stepped up their campaign against EOKA until, even many Britons are beginning to feel, it is close to being a counterterror. Last October the Cyprus Bar Council, a respected association of Cypriot attorneys trained in the British Inns of Court, set up a Human Rights Commission to investigate complaints of ill treatment under interrogation and damage to property during...