Word: cypriotes
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...wearing a beret and with a .45 automatic slung from his Sam Browne belt, and they said it was the likeness of 58-year-old Greek Colonel George Grivas. But was this actually the legendary Dighenis, the man who fought both Nazis and Communists, is now leading the Cypriot revolt against the British? And if so, was he really holed up in the Troodos Mountains...
Sentiments & Sacrifice. Operation Lucky Alphonso was conceived as a means of strengthening the British hand in a resumption of negotiations with the Cypriot nationalists. The tip-off that the Cypriots were ready to talk had come in a letter from Archbishop Makarios to British Labor M.P. Francis Noel-Baker. Speaking of Cyprus Governor Sir John Harding's "pointless decision to exile me," Makarios wrote: "I shall bear no grudge on account of this action. It is possible that the talks will be resumed at the point where they were broken off. But in that case, why the sacrifice...
Cyprus. Dulles fired off a note to Britain urging new negotiations with the Cypriots; the White House meanwhile fielded a note from Prime Minister Eden indicating that Britain, though keen on talks, first wants to crush terrorism. The State Department now notes privately that the current British Laborite attack on Eden's get-tough policy may help promote the necessary talks; State also believes that talks would be helped along by the return of Cypriot Political Leader Archbishop Makarios from exile. Should this bring about the transfer of Field Marshal Sir John Harding, the island's tough little...
...John's report that the tough policy on Cyprus is starting to pay off. With sharp, soldierly precision, Harding told a closed-door meeting of 300 M.P.s at Westminster how it works: only when terrorism is stamped out will the "fertile vacuum" be created in which new, moderate Cypriot leaders will emerge...
...field marshal was adamant in his opposition to bringing back Archbishop Makarios from his Seychelles island exile. It still remains to be seen whether any other responsible Cypriot leader can be found to accept the British offer on self-determination, which still stands in all its negative ambiguity as laid down by Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd: "It is not the Government's position that the principles of self-determination can never be applicable to Cyprus...