Word: cypriotes
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Through eight months, the people of Cyprus have maintained an uneasy truce with the British authorities, awaiting the day when their cause would once again reach the floor of the United Nations. For weeks. Cyprus' exiled Archbishop Makarios has haunted Manhattan, a black-robed reminder of Cypriot demands. Last week, as debate started in New York, the island erupted with riots...
...governor, Harding had become identified with the policy of repressing EOKA underground terrorism by hangings, curfews, communal fines and 20,000-soldier man hunts. He deported Archbishop Makarios for leading the Greek Cypriot agitation for union with Greece, and publicly declared that Britain should never negotiate with him. Clearly, if Britain hoped to negotiate a political settlement, Harding...
Makarios defended the Cypriot EOKA movement, asking "How can you call the Hungarian patriots 'freedom fighters' and the Cypriot patriots 'terrorists...
...British hope to call a conference of Greek, Turkish and Cypriot representatives this summer, if possible wind up their three-year dispute with Greek Cypriots before the U.N. Assembly meets again in September...
...soon confirmed. From the Seychelles, black-bearded Patriarch Makarios announced flatly that he was not prepared to negotiate with the British until he was permitted to return to Cyprus, and somberly hinted that EOKA terrorism would be resumed unless Britain lifted the state of emergency and released all Greek Cypriot political prisoners. By implication he also rejected Britain's offer of limited home rule for Cyprus under the British crown. "For the people of Cyprus," he declared, "a democratic and just solution means only the application of self-determination"-in other words, union with Greece...