Word: ethnarch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Athens' Ellinikon airport, Macmillan shook hands with Greece's handsome Prime Minister Constantine Karamanlis, who attributes his rapidly greying hair to the Cyprus question. At almost the same time, Cyprus Governor Sir Hugh Foot flew to Athens to talk privately with bearded Archbishop Makarios, the exiled ethnarch of Cyprus...
During Averoff's two-day visit, Cyprus was discussed-but Greece, after all, already has Tito's and Nasser's support. The Egyptians recently played host to Archbishop Makarios, the exiled ethnarch of Cyprus: anybody feuding with the Turks and angry at the British can count on Nasser's blessing...
...further conciliatory gesture, Sir Hugh Foot had written a letter to the exiled ethnarch of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios, offering to let him return to the island once violence ceased. Climbing down slightly from past positions, Makarios no longer rejected a "transitory stage of self-government." But he was not likely to be made happier by the amazing gaffe committed last week by the Archbishop of Canterbury on a TV broadcast. Explaining why he had invited Makarios to attend the forthcoming Lambeth Conference of bishops in London, the Archbishop of Canterbury said, "By tradition he is one of the officials invited...
...finger-wagging form, Britain's Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, defended himself from the outcry that arose when he invited (as a guest at next July's Lambeth Conference of the world's Anglican bishops) bearded Greek Orthodox Archbishop Makarios, exiled ethnarch of Cyprus. To have omitted Makarios, argued Dr. Fisher, "would inevitably have been interpreted not as an ecclesiastical but as a political action." Makarios said he would try to make it to England, but planned first to visit President Gamal Abdel Nasser of the United Arab Republic...
After five months of negotiation, Archbishop Makarios (see box), ethnarch and spiritual leader of the Cypriot Greeks, had flatly rejected a final British offer of self-government (with the British retaining control of the island's security, defense and foreign affairs until a constitution could be worked out). Foreseeing a drastic British response, blackbearded Archbishop Makarios decided that the time had come to consult with Athens...