Word: cyprus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That evening, proclaiming angrily that "appeasement leads only to disaster," eight right-wing Tory M.P.s bolted the Conservative Party. Next day sibilant, bespectacled Lord Salisbury, who until he resigned from the government over Cyprus (TIME, April 8) was one of Macmillan's closest associates, bitingly called for a House of Lords debate on the Prime Minister's statement. Said Salisbury: "It goes far too near complete capitulation to Colonel Nasser than many of us would have felt bearable, or I was almost going to say, endurable...
...people had packed themselves into the square before the hotel. Speaking to the crowd from the hotel balcony, Makarios promptly made it clear that his months of exile in the Seychelles Islands had made him no readier 19 accept Britain's offer of limited self-government for Cyprus, no less insistent on enosis, i.e., union of Cyprus and Greece. He defiantly eulogized Cyprus' EOKA fighters for their "sacred sacrifice on the altar of freedom," proclaimed "our irrevocable decision to throw off the yoke of slavery." Cried he: "The arguments of the British government for holding...
Representatives on the Run. For the British government, which had hoped that the release of Makarios-even though he is still exiled from Cyprus-would persuade the Greek Cypriots to moderate their demands, all this was vastly disappointing. Speaking for the Macmillan government in the House of Lords, the Earl of Perth explained that the British government intended to invite "representatives of all communities, including the Greek and Turkish Cypriots," to London to discuss "the internal problems" of Cyprus. Somewhat unhappily his lordship added: "If certain potential representatives go on making the sort of statements they have been making...
...Terror. Exile consolidated Mohammed's place in the hearts of his people as his presence never had (a process which the British seem doomed to repeat in Cyprus with Archbishop Makarios). Moroccan women began to see Mohammed's face in the full moon. Imams refused to say prayers in Cousin Moulay Arafa's name. The French did their best to discredit Mohammed, releasing a flood of stories of alleged collaboration with the Nazis, and hustled him even farther away, to Madagascar. Back in Morocco, anger swelled, and terrorism began. Trains were derailed, warehouses fired, boycotts of French...
...overseas garrisons to create a mobile, airborne Central Reserve based in Britain and supplemented by a "small number" of naval groups, each comprising one carrier and supporting ships. Bases will be maintained in Aden, Kenya, Singapore and Hong Kong. Medium bombers armed with atomic weapons will be based on Cyprus to meet Britain's obligations to support the Baghdad Pact countries. But British forces in Korea and Jordan will be withdrawn, and those in Libya "progressively reduced...