Word: cyprus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Greece, whose ties with its NATO allies have been badly strained by the conflict over Cyprus, should have offered Shepilov ideally troubled waters in which to fish. On the Cyprus issue, however, his hands were tied by Russian reluctance to offend Turkey. (The Montreux Convention, which gives the U.S.S.R. access to the Dardanelles, expires this year.) Otherwise, Shepilov had little to offer the Greeks except the conventional invitation to Moscow-an invitation which Greece's staunchly pro-American Premier Karamanlis was in no hurry to snap...
...Commonwealth members wanted more trade with Communist China, and wanted the Reds in the U.N.; others for the present held back. Eden wanted the Commonwealth to share some of the responsibility for the bases that link it together, and got nowhere. He also explained his troubles with Greece over Cyprus-and got unexpected and able help from Pakistan's Mohamad Ali, who shares the misgivings of the Turks...
...Turks welcome British control of Cyprus because the base also protects Turkey, and because they, as co-partners in the Baghdad Pact, see eye to eye with British policy in the Middle East. They have said that they will not tolerate control of Cyprus by Greece, a country which they fear might, at some change of government, easily become neutralist. Cyprus is only 40 miles from the Turkish mainland, and governs the southern approaches to that country. A neutralist Cyprus would compel the Turks to reorient their whole defense...
Coming at a time when Turkey is worried about Cyprus and courted by Russia, the resignation last week of Foreign Minister Fuad Koprulu had international overtones. But Dr. Koprulu was specific: "My resignation has no connection with external problems." An Ottoman scholar and a member of a distinguished family (which produced several Grand Viziers), Koprulu, 66, had stepped down from the government for reasons that were even more fundamental than foreign policy: the growing instability of the country and its government...
...There (Sun. 6:30 p.m., CBS). Cyprus Today. A report by CBS foreign correspondents...