Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Friendship in Jeopardy. British retreat from Cyprus, said Menderes, would mean "an international disaster," and would upset the whole "delicate balance" of the 1923 Lausanne Treaty, under which-after much bloody fighting between Greek and Turk-Turkey formally ceded Cyprus to Britain and ceded many of the offshore islands and Western Thrace to Greece...
...always been the Greek contention that the Turks do not really care about Cyprus, and have only been stirred up by perfidious Albion. Though the Turks deny this, the fact is they have been quiet all along, even though there are 100,000 Turkish Cypriots as well as 400,000 Greek Cypriots involved. Then why their silence? The Turks answer that they had no desire to complicate the issue so long as the British held to their resolution not to leave Cyprus...
...Turkey's Prime Minister Adnan Menderes made his case. "You are aware," he said, "that Greece has worked up this whole tremendous agitation simply to be able to annex an island 40 miles from Turkey and 600 or 700 miles from her own mainland. In doing so the Greek government has not hesitated to imperil the future of NATO, of the Balkan Pact [Greece, Turkey, Yugoslavia] and of its own good relations with Britain and Turkey...
...Vorno as the immigrant cousins, and Thomas Clancy as the lawyer-narrator are all excellent. Jill Kraft is more than adequate as the niece, though her vocal inflections do not always ring true. William Roberts' set is appositely stark and grim, with a suggestion here and there of classical Greek architecture (as in Boris Aronson's Broadway set). Tharon Musser's lighting is always helpful if straightforward...
Among the foreigners who have volunteered to aid the Democrats is John Papademetriou, a Greek student studying classical literature here. He wants to be non-partisan, and said he hoped "to observe Republican operations also...