Word: cyprus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thursday all capitals had learned that the Cairo talks had reached an impasse. While the first of 2,500 French paratroopers and airmen disembarked in Cyprus, Sir Anthony Eden met with his Cabinet in London, summoned Parliament to a special sitting. Nasser told a visitor that the situation made him feel like Samson about to pull down the pillars. On Friday, the Moslem day of rest, he went off to sun with his family on a beach. That evening a Menzies press officer told newsmen that "the talks have come to a complete end," that the committee was going home...
Tension in Cyprus took a new turn last weekwhen a grimy little two-stack transport flying the French tricolor putinto Limassol harbor. Moody Cypriots stared with astonishment as 1,400 blue-bereted paratroopers and 1,300 airmen moved without armed protection towards the tent city hastily built for them by theBritish near World War II Tymbou air base. If that did not give a clue to what was happening, the dispatch of another ship did. It was a 3,226-ton tanker named Bacchus, and it gurgled toward Cyprus with a full cargo of wine. The French had arrived...
Violence was once again the word on Cyprus. Now that the first hopes of peace have been dashed, it has become clear that basic British policy on Cyprus has not so much toughened of late as it has been smoked out by events. The British simply do not want to reach a settlement with the exiled Cypriot leader Archbishop Makarios...
...Cyprus' union with Greece in the near future. Every new troop transport arriving at Nicosia last week underlined the basic reason-namely, that Britain feels it must have a secure eastern Mediterranean base from which to safeguard its Middle East interests...
...Eden government, standing pat, was in the position of having to justify its conduct to many of its own countrymen. Out on Cyprus, with E.O.K.A.'s amnesty offer withdrawn, bombs and guns went off all over. Terrorists attacked two police stations near Nicosia. A limpet mine, presumably placed by an E.O.K.A. frogman, holed the bottom of a small vessel anchored at the very spot where French and British supply ships were scheduled to unload later in the week...