Word: cyprus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Turkey's 59-year-old Premier Adnan Menderes was flying into London from Istanbul with a planeload of Turkish officials, Members of Parliament and newsmen for final talks on a Cyprus settlement. His secretary had pulled him through a hole in the wreckage. Margaret Bailey, a former nurse, drove them through the woods to her 14th century farm cottage, wrapped them in hot blankets, served them tea and some of her precious 1868 brandy...
...dressing gown, received British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Greek Premier Constantine Karamanlis three days after the crash. Somebody brought them one of the hospital's fountain pens. And in that most undiplomatic of settings, the three men signed the agreement that ended the four-year dispute over Cyprus and brought the island the promise of independence for the first time since the 12th century. It was what Menderes had come for, and the signing took only ten minutes...
...fast fortnight, diplomats had pulled the fuse out of the Cyprus time bomb. They were rightfully hailed for their good will and their statesmanship. But it finally took old-fashioned steamroller tactics to turn the trick. The steamroller ran right across both the British and bearded Archbishop Makarios, the temperamental star of the Cyprus drama...
...roared Lord Beaverbrook's imperialistic Daily Express. "The Ministers are ready to cast away another jewel of the empire." But to the majority of Englishmen, the jewel seemed to be becoming as jinxed as the Hope diamond. Its loss seemed a small price to pay for peace in Cyprus, for the saving of lives of British Tommies, for the renewal of Britain's traditional friendship with Greece and the re-establishment of NATO unity...
Germany gains from never having had colonies in the Mideast and, by shunning long-term investments in the area, West German businessmen continue to avoid the dread label "imperialist." Fury over British policy in Cyprus helped wipe out Gfeek memories of the harsh World War II German occupation, has played a big part in the Greek choice of West Germany as its new economic mentor. In Arab countries, the Suez invasion gave German traders a big edge over the British and French. "And why not?" asks one West German businessman. "We have clean hands...