Word: cypriotes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...latest shocking example of Britain's inhumane laws involved Eftihia Christos, a 39-year-old Greek Cypriot who came to Britain 20 years ago. In 1953, after her husband died of tuberculosis, Eftihia got an allowance from the National Assistance Board, but it was too meager to support her four children, three of whom also suffered from TB. And so, in order to buy eggs and milk for them, Eftihia Christos began working far into each night, sewing hooks and eyes on dresses. Because she failed to report her extra ?2 to ?3 weekly earnings to the National Assistance...
...British troops combed the island of Cyprus searching for him. Everywhere they found traces of his handiwork-a defiant leaflet, a mine in the road, a body in the street. But nowhere did the British find Colonel George Grivas, hated and feared chief of the Greek Cypriot terrorist underground organization EOKA. Sometimes the British even wondered whether the legendary Grivas existed...
...succumb." He had consented to a peace that brought self-government to Cyprus but forbade it enosis (union with Greece). He handed the mayor of Athens a small bag of earth taken from his mountain lair, and said emotionally, "This bit of soil, soaked with the blood of Cypriot fighters, will be the link between Cyprus and Greece." His eyes still wet, Grivas was led to a Cadillac, and driven through flag-decked streets to be cheered by a quarter million Athenians...
Britain's respected Cyprus Governor Sir Hugh Foot (who previously guided both the Nigerians and Jamaicans on the road to independence) moved swiftly to reduce onerous restrictions, so that Makarios and Turkish Cypriot leaders would find it easier to sell the compromise plan to a doubting populace. Swallowing hard, the British proclaimed an amnesty that assures safe-conduct to Greece for Colonel George Grivas, wispy, 60-year-old leader of the Greek Cypriot terrorist underground organization EOKA, along "with anyone he may wish to take with him." The British also announced plans to cut their garrison from...
When Governor Foot opened the gates this week for all 900 Greek Cypriot political prisoners held without trial in the British detention camps, thousands thronged Nicosia's streets to welcome them. But Cyprus still awaited the return of Makarios and of the Turkish Cypriot leaders to be convinced that independence was real and something to celebrate. On an island ringed with barbed wire and stalked by terror for four years, it was not easy to forget overnight...