Word: cypriotes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their stubborn four-year fight against Britain, Greek Cypriots had two respected chiefs. For military leadership they looked to daring, irascible George Grivas, the Greek army colonel who led their guerrilla bands. For political and spiritual guidance they relied on black-bearded Archbishop Makarios, head of Cyprus' Greek Orthodox Church and ethnarch of Cyprus' Greeks. Last week, with establishment of an independent Cypriot Republic only five months away, Cyprus' two heroes were at daggers drawn...
...trouble started when Grivas, now a lieutenant general and back in restless retirement in Athens, began to rumble that prospective Cypriot President Makarios was making "too many concessions to Britain and the Turks." In reply, Makarios expelled from his Cyprus Reconstruction Front Fotis Papafotis, 26, former underground leader who lost a hand fighting the British. Papafotis, Makarios charged, was involved with a Grivas-backed group who were plotting the murder of Makarios and 50 of his supporters. As proof, the Archbishop exhibited an intercepted "assassination list" and a letter he said Grivas had written to Papafotis, urging replacement of Makarios...
...skillfully elusive commander of the Greek Cypriot underground during four years of bloody strife with the British, Colonel George Grivas was content to let exiled Archbishop Makarios and Greece's Premier Constantine Karamanlis do the political talking. When peace came, the 61-year-old soldier returned to Athens for a hero's welcome, promotion to lieutenant general, a lifetime pension of $300 a month, and a well-earned rest. But it was not long before peace and quiet began to seem to the old soldier to be neglect. The only people who sought him out in his suburban...
...tempted. He began talking about making Greece a respected power, no longer "a corpse on which everyone is committing rape." He spoke mysteriously of wanting "a dozen butcher hooks to hang a dozen capitalists." He grumbled that Archbishop Makarios was not consulting him about events in Cyprus. Stunned Greek Cypriots began getting anonymous letters denouncing the archbishop as a deserter. Grivas now rejects the Anglo-Greco-Turkish truce agreements entirely, disclosed that he has sent a secret circular advising his former EOKA terrorist lieutenants that the settlement was "against the best interests of the Greek Cypriot people." He calls...
Grivas' activity was a decided embarrassment to Archbishop Makarios, who has impressed even British and Turkish critics with his desire to bring peace to Cyprus before his expected selection next winter as President. Worried by Grivas' pronouncements, which seemed to many Cypriots the mischievous product of thwarted ambitions. Makarios last week sent his top aide, Bishop Anthimos, to Athens to plead with the old soldier to restrain himself. Sighed Makarios to a reporter: "For Cyprus the Cypriot problem is over. The problem now exists in Greece." So far, however, the bitter Grivas does not seem to have captured...