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...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, "a new situation would be created." And in any event, no new Radcliffe constitution could go into effect until "terrorism" had been crushed...
...sort in sending Lord Radcliffe to Cyprus, having hitherto refused to take any step at all while terrorism continued. Governor Sir John Harding, hoping to save face, said that Radcliffe was coming "now that the terrorists are beginning to crack." In Nicosia, "with deep resentment," the Greek Cypriot community declined to treat with Radcliffe while Archbishop Makarios was still in exile...
Last March, negotiations broke down on Makarios' insistence that he should hand-pick the Greek majority in the Provisional Assembly, and on his demand for an amnesty for all Cypriot terrorists. The real issue was control of the island's security. The British feared that a hostile government in command of the island's police and defense services might act to weaken, even make untenable, their huge military base, intended for the protection of British oil interests in the Middle East...
...determination. If agreement could be reached on these points, Archbishop Makarios would immediately appeal to the terrorists to call off the violence-and, said Kranidiotis, he would be obeyed. Asked why the peace-loving Archbishop had not done this earlier, Kranidiotis explained that, as the elected representative of the Cypriot people, the Archbishop had been bound to heed their inclinations, which were in "the Greek heroic tradition...
...Turkish Snag. Although this view seemed to confirm the British charge that the Archbishop was intimately connected with Cypriot terrorist activity, and despite misgivings about the Archbishop's reasons for not demanding a definite date for self-determination (thus giving him the opportunity to raise the issue whenever he wished), the British were in a mood to go ahead with a new offer to the Cypriots. There remained one more snag-Turkey...