Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cell Andreas Demetriou, also 23, and awaiting a similar fate, shouted the news to prisoners down the row. Field Marshal Sir John Harding, the doughty little Governor of Cyprus, had made a soldier's unpleasant decision: finding "no grounds for exercising Royal Prerogative of Mercy," the two young Greek Cypriots must hang...
...year-long fight between Greek-speaking Cypriots and their British masters in the crown colony of Cyprus, 92 people had lost their lives up to week's end-not a very big figure when set against such other tragic struggles as Kenya and Algeria. But what made it heartbreaking is the fact that it is a fight between friends. Greeks have fought beside Britons for freedom since Byron; they cannot understand now why the British should deny their fellow Greeks' desire for self-determination...
...worst street killings and disorders since the Communists tried to grab power in 1944. Blocked off by army barricades from the British embassy, Athens mobs stoned the U.S. Information Office and started a sprinting, shooting street fight with troops and cops in which three died, 200 were wounded. Greek Premier Constantine Karamanlis pleaded with the British to call off the executions. So did 30 British Labor M.P.s. And so, departing briefly from the U.S. decision to be neutral over Cyprus, did John Foster Dulles, who asked Britain's Selwyn Lloyd "whether it would not be prudent to postpone...
...renaming the Athens street fronting the British embassy "Karaolis-Demetriou Street." A Cretan merchant offered a $300,000 reward for Sir John Harding's head, to match Harding's offer of $30,000 for information leading to the capture of Colonel George Grivas, the British-trained ex-Greek army officer reputed to head EOKA...
Many Britons asked themselves last week whether it was not time to go back and offer genuine democratic self-government to the Cypriots. Britain has long acknowledged that Cyprus is Greek; the great 19th century statesman, William Ewart Gladstone, said he hoped that before his long life ended he might see union of Cyprus with the Greeks. The policy of ironhanded repression, instead of deterring from violence, has justified it; it has inflamed the Cypriot nationalists, endangered Karamanlis' pro-Western government in Greece, damaged NATO ties, raddled feelings between Turk and Greek, and pinned down in distasteful duty...