Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...played his hand with skill. After keeping the canal blocked for months as a lever on Western nations, he had converted its opening into a kind of reverse lever. For shippers were so eager to resume transit that they rushed through without a quibble at his terms. Italian, Greek and West German (as well as Communist) vessels were in the first convoy. The U.S., Britain and France were still "advising" their ships to avoid the canal for the moment while they dickered for better terms...
...Gandhi, Nehru and Nkrumah before they could get a solution." This has been the argument hurled at Britain's Tory government ever since March 1956 when the Eden Cabinet, without the formality of a trial, exiled Archbishop Makarios to the Seychelles Islands for his dealings with EOKA, the Greek Cypriot underground. Last week, in a major gesture of conciliation, the British government accepted this argument. In doing so, it suffered the loss of one of its ablest statesmen and found itself in hotter water at home than ever...
...Suez crisis and who regarded Makarios' goal of enosis (union of Cyprus with Greece) as a direct threat to its security. Cyprus, which lies only 40 miles off the Turkish coast, is the only major island on the sea approaches to Turkey that is not already in Greek hands...
What had happened was only discovered later: in the big split between Tito and Stalin that year, General Markos had stubbornly continued to use both Yugoslav and Bulgarian bases, i.e., refused to take sides. Result: Greek Communist Boss Nicholas Zachariades charged him with "Trotskyite opportunistic behavior" and bounced him out of the party as a "fainthearted deserter from the popular democratic movement." Top Yugoslav sources guessed that Markos' illness was really a small round hole in the head...
...Markos for eight years. Then from Communist Poland last month came reports that Markos had turned up there after imprisonment in Rumania and treatment for a mental disorder. Last week a small announcement in the East German (Communist) Neues Deutschland ended the Markos mystery. A resolution by the exiled Greek Communist Party restored to Comrade Markos Vafiades his rights as a member of the Central Committee, admitted that he "had been disciplined by the Central Committee on the basis of empty accusations and by violation of the party statutes during the abnormal inner-party regime." The same meeting expelled Zachariades...