Word: cyprus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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LONDON, Feb. 19--Peace came to Cyprus today after four years of violence. A five-party conference reached agreement on independence for the island after 81 years under the British flag...
...found an agreement for Cypriot liberty, many problems still lie ahead. The tragic situation of civil strife, repression and reprisal which as comprised Cypriot life for the past years was the product of several conflicting 'interests, and not all these interest have been reconciled. The British have seen their Cyprus base as necessary to the preservation of their position in the Mediterranean, especially since they were required to leave the Suez canal. The Greek-Turkish proposal does provide that the British can retain their base on the island, and thus English approval of the scheme seems assured...
...chief difficulty lies in the fact that the Cypriot extremist group, the EOKA faction, has demanded not merely Cypriot liberty from British rule but also union with Greece. It is not at all clear that EOKA will find even a free Cyprus acceptable. Furthermore, potential dangers to the successful working out of the proposal lie in the concurrent majority scheme itself. When the Turkish vice-president uses his veto, how will it be accepted by the Greek majority which will control two-thirds of the single-chambered legislature. It would be naive to assume that from now on life will...
LONDON, Feb. 13--The exiled Cypriot Archbishop Makarios III is coming here next week from Athens to take a top hand in a three-power conference called to endow Cyprus with independence and peace...
There is speculation that the 45-years-old Greek Cypriot leader may become the first president of the projected Cyprus republic...