Word: greeke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Archbishop's Plan. It was a bitter beginning for Britain's hapless "adventure in partnership," the plan to freeze the status of Cyprus for seven years, during which the Turkish and Greek governments would be drawn into running the island's day-to-day affairs in a kind of tridominium. The Greeks were dead set against any plan to get Turkey into the act. As the deadline for the plan's start approached...
Archbishop Makarios, the bearded Greek Orthodox Ethnarch whom the British expelled from Cyprus for encouraging Greek Cypriot violence, came up with an unexpected proposal: he dropped his old demand for enosis (union of Cyprus with Greece), and asked only for independence for the island...
...British, heartily suspicious of Makarios, thought his proposal too vaguely worded, and just "another Makarios trick," decided to go ahead with "partnership" despite Greek protests. Only Turkey said "Howdy, podner." Its special representative reported for duty to British Governor Sir Hugh Foot. But to soften passions, the Turks appointed as their adviser to Foot not someone from Ankara-who might have been welcomed at the airport with bombs-but the Turkish consul general in Nicosia, who was already there. Shrugged 55-year-old Burhan Ishin, a husky onetime Turkish national soccer star and longtime diplomat: "After all, I can only...
Agonizing Quarrel. Greece sent no representative at all; Greek Cypriots shuttered their shops in protest, their schoolchildren paraded in the streets shouting
...Death to the plan." From Athens, Makarios dispatched an inflammatory statement: "I call upon the Greek Cypriot people to oppose vigorously the enforcement of the new British plan and to fight it as one man." The Greek EOKA terrorists who shot down Mrs. Cutliffe had apparently got the message...