Word: cypriotes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cyprus, the undeclared truce that has been in force since Britain announced its plan for a tridominium came to an end in the bloodiest week yet of vengeful bombings, shootings and riots. The death toll: twelve Greek Cypriots, ten Turkish Cypriots and two British soldiers. Harassed British Governor Sir Hugh Foot persuaded the leaders of both the Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities to join him in an unprecedented appeal for calm...
Thirty years a civil servant, and ever the diplomat, 51-year-old Sir Hugh Foot, Britain's governor on Cyprus, last week turned salesman. His pitch: if the Greeks, the Turks, the Cypriots and the British themselves will all show restraint, Britain's new plan for limited self-government on the island can be made to work. Foot strolled unarmed through the tense Turkish quarter of Nicosia, appealing in person to startled Turk Cypriot shopkeepers and stallholders for calm. And to show the Greeks how ready he was to negotiate, Foot released the text of a secret offer...
...Michael and Dingle belong) not to rock the boat with an all-out attack on the government's plan. At a meeting of Labor M.P.s, red-haired Barbara Castle, a fiery left-winger, made an impassioned plea for the party to stick by its earlier pledge to allow Cypriots to determine their own future, i.e., allow the Greek Cypriot majority on the island to vote for union with Greece. Governor Foot emerged from the meeting not fully reassured...
...draw the Greeks and Turks into what would amount to a condominium, Macmillan invited each nation to send a representative to the island to work with the British Governor and the local Cypriot Council. He proposed that Cypriots be allowed to become Greek or Turkish citizens while retaining their British citizenship. If this experiment works, said the Prime Minister, Britain would be prepared to go further and "at the appropriate time . . . share the sovereignty of the island with her Greek and Turkish allies." Complicated as the plan was, it had certainly considered everyone's feelings. But within hours...
...give Greek and Turkish governments a sense of participation-and of responsibility-in Cypriot affairs, Athens and Ankara would each send to Cyprus one representative who could take part in the Central Council's meetings, raise questions with the governor and submit disputes to an "independent tribunal." ¶ Britain would remain responsible for the island's defense and its internal security for at least the next seven years...