Word: cyprus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shadow of Colonel Blimp, that imperturbable British master of ineptitude and lost opportunities, hung over Cyprus last week...
...fortnight ago, when E.O.K.A., the Greek Cypriot underground, offered to call off its campaign of terrorism (TIME, Aug. 27), the troubled island of Cyprus began to sense a degree of peace. British Governor Sir John Harding conceded that the E.O.K.A. truce offer might well represent "a chance for a fresh start" on Cyprus. And it might have, had the British risen to the occasion...
...their optimism Cypriots forgot the traditional stiff-necked British reluctance to negotiate with "rebels and outlaws." They also overlooked the fact that Colonel Nasser's as yet unpunished defiance of Britain at Suez made it politically attractive to the Eden government to continue a tough line in Cyprus (a restive group of Tory backbenchers known as the "Suez group" keeps urging on Eden the dated simplicities of gunboat diplomacy...
...response: leaflets scattered by jeep and plane offering amnesty to all E.O.K.A. men who would lay down their arms and surrender. Harding's terms: any terrorist who surrendered within three weeks was free to renounce British citizenship and emigrate to Greece; those who chose to remain in Cyprus must stand trial for any physical violence they had committed. All other crimes would be for given, but all E.O.K.A. members who stayed in Cyprus would be held prisoner "until released either by the ending of the state of emergency or by virtue of an order of the governor." These terms...
...Reasonable & Generous." Undisturbed, British authorities on Cyprus announced that Sir John's offer would stand. Blithely they predicted that all E.O.K.A. members except "a few fanatics" would surrender. And to justify its stubborn refusal to deal with Makarios, the Colonial Office announced that recently captured E.O.K.A. documents proved "beyond doubt" that Archbishop Makarios helped establish E.O.K.A. and was "actually involved in the choice of individual victims for murder." Said Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd: "We knew something of [Makarios'] complicity before. I must confess I found it very distasteful to negotiate in a friendly way, knowing his duplicity...