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Within an hour, Governor Harding telephoned Archbishop Myriarthefs Makarios, leader of the Greek Cypriot drive for enosis (union) with Greece, and arranged to meet him next day on the "neutral ground" of Nicosia's Ledra Palace hotel. Then the governor conferred in fast succession with 35 local officials, called in newsmen to tell them that he would have a "man-to-man talk" with Makarios and would "lay all my cards on the table...
...soldier of his rank and record should be dispatched to little Cyprus alarmed some Greeks and aroused many to anger. The official Radio Athens, reflecting the continuing Greek irritation over the U.S. vote against U.N. debate of the Cyprus matter, reacted with an anti-American twist: "For every Cypriot [Harding] kills or imprisons, free Greece will hold neither Eden nor Harding responsible, but Mr. Dulles, unless he repents at the last minute and stays the hand of Harding." Greek Foreign Minister Stephanos Stephanopoulos charged that Britain had "declared war on the people of Cyprus...
Angry crowds gathered at the dockside as Armitage murmured to an aide his last words on Cypriot soil ("I do hope George remembered my umbrella") and departed. The smaller, non-Communist Cyprus Confederation of Workers joined the Communist union and paralyzed the island with a 24-hour strike. Idle workers stoned British troops in Limassol and tried to mass in Nicosia's square, but the Tommies and police fixed bayonets, swung clubs, fired tear gas, arrested 209 demonstrators, and generally let it be known that with the coming of Fighting John Harding, Cyprus' era of tolerant umbrellaism...
...independence. The British, anxious to strengthen it as a Middle Eastern base now that Suez has gone, fortnight ago classified Cyprus as one of those parts of their empire which will never be allowed to go free. Last week the British-run government of the island, getting specific, forbade Cypriot agitation for Enosis (union) with Greece. Henceforth, Enosis agitation on Cyprus will be punished as seditious...