Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Greece, declared Averoff, is not claiming Cyprus for herself, would even be willing to see the island become an independent state. Eloquently he called upon the Assembly "as a tribute to liberty" to pass a Greek resolution demanding self-determination for Cyprus...
...items on the U.N. docket. But while all eyes last week were on the most conspicuous of these, the U.N. General Assembly was in no mood to pursue other quarrels too far. Example: the two-year-old Cyprus revolt. This time the defendant was Britain and the complaining witness Greek rather than Arab, but the speeches were quite clearly some that had been left over from the Algerian debate of two weeks...
...joust began with an assault on Britain by Greek Foreign Minister Evangelos Averoff-Tossizza. Much hung on Averoff's performance. If he failed to win Greece a respectful hearing in the U.N., Premier Constantine Karamanlis' shaky pro-American government would be in deep trouble. (During a recent Greek parliamentary debate on Cyprus, Karamanlis was called "traitor" a dozen times within an hour...
Britain's Commander Allan Noble countered with a resolution urging the Greek government to shut off shipments of Greek arms and money to the Cypriot rebels. Turkey's Selim Sarper charged that Greece's sole interest in Cyprus was "territorial aggrandizement" and solemnly advanced the current Turkish ploy: if Greece insists on self-determination for Cyprus, Turkey will insist that the island be partitioned between its 400,000 Greek and 100,000 Turkish inhabitants. Patently determined to avoid entanglement in a quarrel between three NATO members, the U.S. earnestly entreated the U.N. to do nothing. "The adoption...
...Royal Danish house of Schleswig-Holstein-Son-derburg-Glucksburg, which originated in Germany and now rules Greece) and, though he renounced the title officially to become a British subject, he continued to call himself Prince Philip. When Philip became engaged to Elizabeth, King George VI made the ex-Greek prince an English royal duke with the proviso that he be called, like Britain's other royal dukes (all of whom are also princes), "His Royal Highness." But with that settled, most people went right on calling him Prince Philip just as they had before, and Philip himself confessed that...