Word: cyprus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Englishmen once again walked the streets of Cyprus freely, and in the capital of Nicosia long-idle café waiters scurried to serve capacity crowds. For the first time in months there even were queues outside the theaters near "Murder Mile,"−downtown Ledra Street which E.O.K.A., the Greek Cypriot underground, had so long terrorized with its murders...
...tranquillity that settled last week over Britain's terror-torn Mediterranean base rested on a strange foundation. Field Marshal Sir John Harding, the peppery British Governor of Cyprus, had doggedly reiterated the terms on which Britain would abandon her "get tough" policy in the island: "Let the murderers make the first move if there is to be a stopping of violence." Unexpectedly, E.O.K.A. did just that. In leaflets scattered throughout Cyprus, "Dighenis the Leader'' of E.O.K.A. (presumably former Greek Army Colonel George Grivas) ordered "from today suspension of operations by all forces under my authority," in return...
Pieces of Paper. E.O.K.A.'s offer caught both friends and foes by surprise. In Athens the Greek government, long at loggerheads with Britain over Cyprus, promptly drew up a communiqué praising E.O.K.A.'s "noble decision," then in a rush of doubt held it up for 24 hours on the ground that the leaflets might not be authentic. The British government's first reaction was equally cautious. "You must remember," said a British spokesman, "that this is only one man's offer, and it came from pieces of paper scattered in the street...
...material and by the fact that the Greek Cypriot populace, which once gave E.O.K.A. almost unanimous approval, has been increasingly distressed by bombings, riots and curfews. (In the past few weeks several Greek Cypriots, including an ex-member of the E.O.K.A., have made anti-E.O.K.A. broadcasts over Cyprus Radio...
...concluded his offer with a threat to meet any British violation of the truce with renewed violence "on a fiercer and more intensive scale." But the British, too, were in a mood to test good intentions and to prove their own. Day after the truce leaflets appeared, the Cyprus supreme court commuted to life imprisonment the death sentence that had been passed on 18-year-old Chrysostomos Panayi for participating in the bombing of a military police barracks. The following day the District Commissioner of Nicosia lifted a four-month-old ban on nighttime use of motorcycles and bicycles. Cautiously...