Word: cypriotes
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...worked unflaggingly to build what he calls "bridges of trust" between his administration and the Greek and Turkish inhabitants of the island. Five days before Christmas, he set off celebrations in Nicosia by releasing from detention camps 89 men and 11 women accused of supporting EOKA, the Greek-Cypriot rebel force. Where his predecessor, Field Marshal Sir John Harding, commonly moved about in a heavily escorted bulletproof car. Sir Hugh toured the island's villages on horseback, stopping off in coffee houses for chats with amazed farmers...
Back in London, Foot proceeded to map out for Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and the Colonial Office the road he favored. Best guess as to Sir Hugh's recommendations: immediate talks either in Cyprus or London with Archbishop Makarios, leader of the Greek Cypriot community whom the British still refused to allow to return to Cyprus. Object of the talks: to agree upon a set period of self-government for Cyprus, after which the Greek majority (80%) of the island's inhabitants could decide in favor of union (enosis) with Greece if they still wanted...
...would be a strategic menace to Turkey, insist that if Britain gives up Cyprus, the island must be partitioned between Greece and Turkey. The obvious danger was that Foot's plan might end EOKA violence only to set off a new wave of disorder by Volkan, the Turkish Cypriot underground...
Jumping their cue by two days, 1,500 Greek teen-agers swirled into the twisted alleyways of Nicosia, swarmed into a cathedral chanting: "Enosis" (Union with Greece). Outside, they were met by black-helmeted security police. Recruited from the Turkish Cypriot community by the British, the "Black Turks" are hated by the Greek Cypriots. Truncheons came, down on the backs of screaming boys and girls. Tear-gas shells were lobbed into crowds of rock-hurling youngsters...
...open mind," pleaded for calm in which Britain, Turkey and Greece could try to unravel the tangle. He was not going to let pride stand in his way. When local officials refused to come to see him at Government House, Foot called on Nicosia's Greek Cypriot mayor in his own home. "Things are bad-very bad," said Foot. "But give me a break and I know we can find...