Word: cyprus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Friendship in Jeopardy. British retreat from Cyprus, said Menderes, would mean "an international disaster," and would upset the whole "delicate balance" of the 1923 Lausanne Treaty, under which-after much bloody fighting between Greek and Turk-Turkey formally ceded Cyprus to Britain and ceded many of the offshore islands and Western Thrace to Greece...
...Cyprus is a sore subject involving three presumably friendly nations, and two of them have long since made their views noisily plain. Last week came word from the third nation: Turkey...
...always been the Greek contention that the Turks do not really care about Cyprus, and have only been stirred up by perfidious Albion. Though the Turks deny this, the fact is they have been quiet all along, even though there are 100,000 Turkish Cypriots as well as 400,000 Greek Cypriots involved. Then why their silence? The Turks answer that they had no desire to complicate the issue so long as the British held to their resolution not to leave Cyprus...
Last week Britain's General Sir Gerald Templer, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, flew into Ankara for urgent talks with Turkish leaders. "I am here as head of the British army," said General Templer. "If the issue of Cyprus is brought up, I will deal with it in my limited province as a military man." Presumably, however, he was there to acquaint the Turks with an Anthony Eden proposal to give the Cypriots self-rule and the right of self-determination within ten years...
...take Cyprus away from that treaty and the whole edifice comes tumbling down," said one of Menderes' senior aides. "There are all kinds of claims that can be made legitimately upon Greek territory. I have my own little list...