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Britain's Commander Allan Noble countered with a resolution urging the Greek government to shut off shipments of Greek arms and money to the Cypriot rebels. Turkey's Selim Sarper charged that Greece's sole interest in Cyprus was "territorial aggrandizement" and solemnly advanced the current Turkish ploy: if Greece insists on self-determination for Cyprus, Turkey will insist that the island be partitioned between its 400,000 Greek and 100,000 Turkish inhabitants. Patently determined to avoid entanglement in a quarrel between three NATO members, the U.S. earnestly entreated the U.N. to do nothing. "The adoption...
...British resolution would have the U.N. General Assembly note the charges that Greece had supplied arms, ammunition and money to Greek Cypriot terrorists, and call upon Greece to take "effective measures" to prevent such support of encouragement...
...London proclaimed its long-awaited "self-government" plan for the rebellious island of Cyprus (TIME. Dec. 31), two travelers, giving their names as "Mr. Symes" and "Mr. Black," arrived by steamer at the lonely Seychelles Islands far out in the Indian Ocean. They wanted to see the exiled Greek Cypriot leader, Archbishop Makarios. Last week the British government confirmed that Mr. Symes and Mr. Black were in fact Derek Pearson of the Colonial Office and Cleon Tornaritis, former Attorney General of Cyprus, the highest government post ever held by a Cypriot (for holding it, Tornaritis was put on the wanted...
Freedom Must Wait. Far more serious an objection to the Greeks than the elephant traps in Lord Radcliffe's constitution was the fact that the British proposals made no real concession to the basic Greek Cypriot demand for self-determination, i.e., union with Greece. To have made any such substantial concession at this moment might have so enraged the flag-waving, Suez-group backbenchers as to threaten Sir Anthony Eden's stay in office. But there was more than one lesson to be drawn from Britain's failure in Egypt. Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck, veteran African...
...Cyprus, where he had gone to cover the Egyptian fighting, 27-year-old Angus Macdonald of London's weekly Spectator fell last week under a Cypriot assassin's bullet, shot in the back on a Nicosia street. He was the third newsman to die in the Middle Eastern crisis. Ironically, his last dispatch argued "the bankruptcy of [Britain's Cyprus] policy of shoot first, negotiate afterwards...