Word: cyprus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Still undaunted, the Socialists moved another censure, this time regretting the Tory government's failure to reach an earlier settlement of the Cyprus dispute. Nye Bevan twitted the Tories for dealing with Archbishop Makarios as they had done previously with the Indians and the Irish. "We said we could not 'shake hands with murder,' and then we did shake hands," said Bevan. "We did the same with Nkrumah. Honorable members opposite put him in jail." Came a cry from the Tory benches opposite...
...British put a price of $28,000 on his head, and for four years up to 25,000 British troops combed the island of Cyprus searching for him. Everywhere they found traces of his handiwork-a defiant leaflet, a mine in the road, a body in the street. But nowhere did the British find Colonel George Grivas, hated and feared chief of the Greek Cypriot terrorist underground organization EOKA. Sometimes the British even wondered whether the legendary Grivas existed...
...after four years, there he was: an aging (60) little (5 ft. 3 in) grey-mustached man, gaunt, hollow-cheeked and weary, but very much alive. Last week, pardoned as part of the Cyprus peace settlement, George Grivas arrived home in Athens and was feted like a hero out of Homer. At the airport Grivas strode briskly down the gangway from the Greek Air Force Dakota that had been dispatched to Cyprus to fetch him, and he pushed first to the arms of his wife. He was dressed as he had lived for four hunted years, in brown sweater, brown...
...northward in a nine-day mopping-up operation. At night, soldiers and police swooped down upon scattered villages of mud-walled huts to cart off every male adult for questioning. The "screening process" was admittedly a bit clumsy-"not nearly so well defined," one police officer said, "as in Cyprus or Kenya." But the fact that those two fateful names came up at all was symptomatic of the uneasy mood...
...gift of his followers. Whistling through a hole in his front teeth, he testified that he had never given anyone the Mau Mau oath. On the contrary, he had tried to stop the Mau Mau, but his own arrest had unleashed the bloody uprisings. Like Archbishop Makarios on Cyprus, he disowned but failed to condemn terror. "I did as much as I could," said he. "I told my people to let the Mau Mau disappear like the roots of the fig tree...