Word: cypriotes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Temperature. To leave things as they are is to leave Cyprus stalked by terror, rent by hatred, and engulfed by fear. In the past month six British civilians, nine British soldiers, 13 Greek Cypriots and three Turk Cypriot policemen have been killed-one a day since Britain, over Greek objections, began enforcing its "partnership" plan, dividing Greek and Turkish Cypriots in separate legislatures...
Publicly at least, the British were stubbornly insistent on going ahead with what they called a seven-year adventure in partnership-even though it is a queer partnership when the Greeks refuse to be a partner. Partnership would divide the Greek Cypriot majority and the Turkish Cypriot minority on Cyprus into separate legislative councils, and would bring the Athens and Ankara governments into a kind of tridominium rule with Britain. This, the Greeks argued with good cause, would merely freeze the hatreds of the island for the next seven years...
Archbishop Makarios, the bearded Greek Orthodox Ethnarch whom the British expelled from Cyprus for encouraging Greek Cypriot violence, came up with an unexpected proposal: he dropped his old demand for enosis (union of Cyprus with Greece), and asked only for independence for the island...
...Death to the plan." From Athens, Makarios dispatched an inflammatory statement: "I call upon the Greek Cypriot people to oppose vigorously the enforcement of the new British plan and to fight it as one man." The Greek EOKA terrorists who shot down Mrs. Cutliffe had apparently got the message...
...last-ditch attempt to break the deadlock. Governor Sir Hugh Foot flew to London with a new plan to bring back Archbishop Makarios, the bearded, 45-year-old Greek Orthodox Ethnarch of Cyprus and leader of the Greek Cypriot movement for enosis (union with Greece). This would give Foot a Greek Cypriot with whom to negotiate. And Makarios might be persuaded to restrain EOKA's gunmen, he argued. Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd, who had a hand in Makarios' expulsion from the island in 1956, did not agree. He admitted that Makarios would have to be allowed...