Word: cypriote
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...House of Commons last week, Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd announced that the British government had lost patience with Cypriot insurgents on the British-held Mediterranean island of Cyprus. Said tall, tough Lennox-Boyd: "As to the future, the first and most important duty is to restore law and order. For this we have the resolution and the forces, and it will be done...
After five months of negotiation, Archbishop Makarios (see box), ethnarch and spiritual leader of the Cypriot Greeks, had flatly rejected a final British offer of self-government (with the British retaining control of the island's security, defense and foreign affairs until a constitution could be worked out). Foreseeing a drastic British response, blackbearded Archbishop Makarios decided that the time had come to consult with Athens...
...Mediterranean world came from Cyprus, where clumps of almost pure metal once lay loose on the ground. Agamemnon was said to have sailed for Troy carrying a brand-new sword of Cyprian copper. The weapon Alexander the Great brandished against his enemies was the gift of a Cypriot king...
Behind the ugly heat of radioed words, and the rounding up of youthful Cypriot firebrands, Britain's soldier-diplomat, Sir John Harding, continued negotiations with Cypriot Archbishop Makarios, spiritual shepherd and temporal leader (Ethnarch) of the Greek Cypriots. Begrudgingly, the British found themselves treating him like a head of state...
...would like to correct a minor discrepancy: E.O.K.A. is not a "Communist terror group." The initials stand for the Greek words National Organization for Cypriot Freedom...