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Englishmen once again walked the streets of Cyprus freely, and in the capital of Nicosia long-idle café waiters scurried to serve capacity crowds. For the first time in months there even were queues outside the theaters near "Murder Mile,"−downtown Ledra Street which E.O.K.A., the Greek Cypriot underground, had so long terrorized with its murders...
...giving the British a chance to save face. In London it was seen as vindication of Harding's stern policy of military repression of terrorism. E.O.K.A., said the British, had been sobered both by its losses of men and material and by the fact that the Greek Cypriot populace, which once gave E.O.K.A. almost unanimous approval, has been increasingly distressed by bombings, riots and curfews. (In the past few weeks several Greek Cypriots, including an ex-member of the E.O.K.A., have made anti-E.O.K.A. broadcasts over Cyprus Radio...
Behind the yellow stone walls of Nicosia's Central Prison last week, three young Greek Cypriots in their early 20s awaited the hangman. Andreas Zakos and Charilaos Mikhail, condemned for ambushing a British army jeep and killing its driver, lay placidly on their cots and listened to records of Bach and Beethoven. Iacovos Patatsou, who had been condemned for killing a Turkish Cypriot policeman (out of uniform), accepted the farewell of his widowed mother: "Face death with courage...
...tenseness spread over the island, affecting British and Cypriot alike, the Greek Cypriot underground E.O.K.A. announced the capture of a 78-year-old retired British civil servant named John Cremer, who is spending his old age teaching English to Cypriot children. He had been on an evening stroll when four masked men stepped from behind a tree, and one, brandishing a revolver, said: "E.O.K.A. Hold up your hands. We are not going to kill you." Cremer replied: "Well, it doesn't much matter if you do, at my age." They bound him hand and foot and drove off with...
...crushing process, Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd noted last week, 105 Cypriot youths aged 14-18, and 13 boys under the age of 14, have been sentenced to whipping...