Word: cyprus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their stubborn four-year fight against Britain, Greek Cypriots had two respected chiefs. For military leadership they looked to daring, irascible George Grivas, the Greek army colonel who led their guerrilla bands. For political and spiritual guidance they relied on black-bearded Archbishop Makarios, head of Cyprus' Greek Orthodox Church and ethnarch of Cyprus' Greeks. Last week, with establishment of an independent Cypriot Republic only five months away, Cyprus' two heroes were at daggers drawn...
...trouble started when Grivas, now a lieutenant general and back in restless retirement in Athens, began to rumble that prospective Cypriot President Makarios was making "too many concessions to Britain and the Turks." In reply, Makarios expelled from his Cyprus Reconstruction Front Fotis Papafotis, 26, former underground leader who lost a hand fighting the British. Papafotis, Makarios charged, was involved with a Grivas-backed group who were plotting the murder of Makarios and 50 of his supporters. As proof, the Archbishop exhibited an intercepted "assassination list" and a letter he said Grivas had written to Papafotis, urging replacement of Makarios...
...lured into an encounter where" he would, in effect, be standing public trial with Grivas as his prosecutor, promptly refused. At that, Bishop Kyprianos came out in public support of Grivas. Worse yet, Kyprianos raked up once again the old, emotion-charged issue of enosis-union of Cyprus and Greece-and urged Cypriots to denounce the settlement with Britain as "a national tragedy...
Fact was that such favorite Labor Party targets as the bloody consequences of Tory colonial policy in Kenya and Cyprus seemed unlikely to cut much ice. The real issue in the election is the rising standard of living and its continuance. On that score, wavy-haired Hugh Gaitskell, Oxford-trained economist who was Chancellar of the Exchequer in Labor's last government, was in the awkward position of arguing: "We can do it better." Last week, with unemployment dropping and installment buying at an alltime high, Britain, was riding a wave of prosperity so general that even a delegate...
Grivas' activity was a decided embarrassment to Archbishop Makarios, who has impressed even British and Turkish critics with his desire to bring peace to Cyprus before his expected selection next winter as President. Worried by Grivas' pronouncements, which seemed to many Cypriots the mischievous product of thwarted ambitions. Makarios last week sent his top aide, Bishop Anthimos, to Athens to plead with the old soldier to restrain himself. Sighed Makarios to a reporter: "For Cyprus the Cypriot problem is over. The problem now exists in Greece." So far, however, the bitter Grivas does not seem to have captured...