Word: cyprus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Cornwall went the cable: FOOT, GOVERNMENT HOUSE, CYPRUS: SEE SECOND CORINTHIANS FOUR VERSES EIGHT AND NINE. On Cyprus, Sir Hugh Foot, 50, Britain's hard-pressed Governor, opened his Bible to the passage his father, Isaac, had indicated...
...From Cyprus to his father, a 78-year-old Methodist lay preacher, Sir Hugh replied: FOOT, CALLINGTON, CORNWALL: SEE ROMANS FIVE VERSES THREE AND FOUR...
...this spirit last week Sir Hugh Foot set about introducing Britain's intricate new plan to give limited self-government to Cyprus (TIME, June 23). Tribulation was what he expected. After the previous week's bloodshed between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, the British had rushed additional troops to Cyprus, boosting the security force to 37,000 men for an area smaller than Los Angeles County. They postponed the scheduled public announcement of the plan for 48 hours to give the NATO Council a chance to calm the growing bitterness between NATO Partners Greece and Turkey...
Adventure in Partnership. In the House of Commons, Harold Macmillan announced the British offer. Stating Britain's "obligation . . . to give a firm and clear lead out of the present deadlock." he offered an "adventure in partnership." Declared Macmillan: "Cyprus should enjoy the advantages of association not only with the United Kingdom, but also with Greece and Turkey...
...that was two days in the writing, exiled Greek Orthodox Archbishop Makarios, bearded leader of the Greek Cypriot movement for union with Greece, objected that the plan could constitutionally divide the island in two, "thereby creating a focus of permanent unrest." But Makarios, whom Macmillan offered to return to Cyprus if violence ceased, concluded on a milder note: "We do not reject a transitory stage of self-government...