Word: cyprus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West successfully pressed the Soviets to withdraw from Azerbaijan, in Belgrade in 1949, after Tito had been kicked out of the Cominform and was looking to the West for aid. His present mission: to make a new stab at reducing tensions between NATO partners Greece and Turkey over Cyprus, to dampen neutralist swings in Greece...
...your June 25 story on Cyprus, you call E.O.K.A. a "terrorist" group, etc. The term "terrorist" is not a successful one. Applying your way of thinking to the history of the U.S., we have to call all Americans who fought for their independence against the British rule terrorists...
...this point, having brought things to a dead stop, Eden sought to regain the appearance of momentum. He announced that Lord Radcliffe. the eminent constitutional lawyer who arbitrated the tangled boundaries between new India and new Pakistan in 1947 would be sent to Cyprus to work on "the framework of a new liberal constitution." Then Eden set about fencing in Radcliffe's area of maneuver. Radcliffe may confer and chat with British officials on Cyprus and "any others who may wish to speak to him," said Eden, in fact with anyone except the man who mattered most, the exiled...
...33rd week of the Cyprus emergency, Prime Minister Eden got up in the House of Commons and announced the failure of "another approach to this most intractable question on the international level." The British government had finally agreed to the principle of self-determination for the Cypriots, Eden explained, but its valued ally Turkey would not stand for it. Therefore "Her Majesty's Government have to accept that for the moment progress by this means cannot be realized...
...retreat under Turkish pressure, the Eden government had made a concession of a sort in sending Lord Radcliffe to Cyprus, having hitherto refused to take any step at all while terrorism continued. Governor Sir John Harding, hoping to save face, said that Radcliffe was coming "now that the terrorists are beginning to crack." In Nicosia, "with deep resentment," the Greek Cypriot community declined to treat with Radcliffe while Archbishop Makarios was still in exile...