Word: cyprus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the Greek Cypriot underground EOKA offered on Christmas Eve to change its terroristic course on Cyprus if the British would "do the same," Britain's tough Major General Kenneth Darling announced, "We will continue to hunt down lawbreakers...
...Numbers. Moving by the numbers, hat-changing ministers rushed from meetings of the Big Three to reconstitute themselves as The Four, The Six, The Eleven, The Fifteen, The Seventeen. They talked of defense shortcomings, of economic welfare, of hangman's justice in Cyprus, and gun patrols off Iceland...
...progress that has been made in the last five years on the Cyprus problem continues, there will be no Cyprus problem before the UN in 1963. Nicholas S. Zoullas...
...Greek side definite progress has been made towards a solution. Enosis has been dropped and an independent Cyprus is now being talked of both by the Greek Government and by Archbishop Makarios. The repeated talks between Selwyn Lloyd and premier Karamanlis certainly represent progress over the situation a short three years ago when diplomatic relations were all but terminated between Athens and London. In the UN five years ago Greece failed to get the Cyprus item on the agenda for debate, and they were talking of enosis. Last year the Greek resolution for self-determination got a majority...
...only one respect is the statement about lack of progress correct, and that is in describing the Turkish position. Whereas five years ago Turkey said next to nothing about Cyprus, the issue is now considered important enough for the Turkish foreign minister to make the trip to the UN this year to put forth his country's claim personally. It is hoped, however, that the Turks can be persuaded to see that their true interest lies in dropping their ridiculous claim for partition (even the British have ruled partition out as unfeasible) and instead of further exacerbating the situation...