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...Wilson, Prime Minister Eden has announced that the British are going to cut their defense spending by a couple of billion dollars . . . I was wondering just what effect this has on our defense plan...
Cyprus. Dulles fired off a note to Britain urging new negotiations with the Cypriots; the White House meanwhile fielded a note from Prime Minister Eden indicating that Britain, though keen on talks, first wants to crush terrorism. The State Department now notes privately that the current British Laborite attack on Eden's get-tough policy may help promote the necessary talks; State also believes that talks would be helped along by the return of Cypriot Political Leader Archbishop Makarios from exile. Should this bring about the transfer of Field Marshal Sir John Harding, the island's tough little...
Said Prime Minister Anthony Eden in a speech at London's Guildhall (in principle, Jews were not permitted to join England's ancient guilds): "Let us freely acknowledge that they have richly repaid their welcome...
...with the Arabs, announced that his government would disown its words and vote to strike them from the resolution. Sir Pierson Dixon, after stiffly refusing to take out "five little words which are really a glimpse of the obvious," received new orders from "a higher authority," namely Sir Anthony Eden. At the next meeting the British and the U.S. yielded "in the interests of unanimity." Dropping the paragraph the Arabs objected to, the council voted a watered-down resolution calling on the secretary-general to keep using his good offices towards full compliance with the armistice agreements...
...Governor Sir John Harding flew back to London to confer with the Eden government last week, his security forces announced the capture of 17 E.O.K.A. terrorists in a mountain sweep. The announcement was timed to support Sir John's report that the tough policy on Cyprus is starting to pay off. With sharp, soldierly precision, Harding told a closed-door meeting of 300 M.P.s at Westminster how it works: only when terrorism is stamped out will the "fertile vacuum" be created in which new, moderate Cypriot leaders will emerge...