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...will get you, even in your bed." Thus the Greek Cypriot underground, in a mimeographed leaflet signed "The Leader Digenis," gave Britain's Field Marshal Sir John Harding its warning several weeks ago. Last week at a luncheon at Nicosia's Government House, an intelligence colonel told Sir John flatly that the underground was plotting his early assassination. Scoffed short, peppery Soldier Harding: "If they do attempt it, they will have to deal with my army, and that is no trifling matter...
While they lunched, dark, handsome Neophytos Sophocleous, newest of the Cypriot servants, was at work vacuum-cleaning the Harding bedroom. Later, Sir John's Armenian housekeeper found Sophocleous standing between Sir John's and Lady Harding's twin beds, rewinding the electric cord on the machine. Why wasn't he vacuuming? Said Sophocleous: "I have done all that is necessary." That night, while his army patrolled the city in Land Rovers with Sten guns at the ready, Sir John slept a round eight hours...
...first time, Greeks and Turks fell to major fighting. On Kathara Theftera (first day of Lent in the Greek Orthodox calendar), well-wined Greek Cypriots met up with Turkish Cypriots in the village of Vasilia, staged a free-for-all which injured 21 people. Fearful of demonstrations on Greece's issth Day of Independence, Field Marshal Harding put the main towns of the island under curfew for the whole day, i.e., confined 165,000 Cypriot people to their homes. At week's end, while British police were still searching for Neophytos Sophocleous, Sir John Harding discharged his remaining...
...Kick in the Teeth." Early last week the State Department moved publicly into the controversy. Appalled by British deportation of the Cypriot leader, Archbishop Myriarthefs Makarios, and by Britain's general adoption of a "tough" policy, the State Department openly urged Britain to resume negotiations with the Cypriots. Announced State Department Press Officer Lincoln White: "The United States Government earnestly hoped that basic agreements might be reached which would enable the people of Cyprus to achieve their legitimate desire of cooperation in the establishment of a government truly representative of the people of the island." Privately, the U.S. attitude...
...when it began its long agitation to reunite its scattered peoples. In 1878 that great champion of empire, Britain's Benjamin Disraeli, acquired Cyprus from Turkey in exchange for help against the Russians. Said a onetime Cyprus governor, Sir Ronald Storrs: "No sensible person will deny that the Cypriot is Greek-speaking, Greek-thinking, Greek-feeling, Greek...