Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Governor Foot opened the gates this week for all 900 Greek Cypriot political prisoners held without trial in the British detention camps, thousands thronged Nicosia's streets to welcome them. But Cyprus still awaited the return of Makarios and of the Turkish Cypriot leaders to be convinced that independence was real and something to celebrate. On an island ringed with barbed wire and stalked by terror for four years, it was not easy to forget overnight...
When Queen Victoria ruled the waves, Lord Palmerston sent the fleet to blockade the port of Athens simply to collect damages for a Gibraltar-born Jewish Briton whose house had been destroyed by a Greek mob. "A British subject in whatever land he may be," proclaimed the Queen's Foreign Secretary, "shall feel that the strong arm of England will protect him against injustice and wrong...
...Barricades. Last week the Borinage, hardly changed since the days of Author Zola and Painter Van Gogh, erupted again. Its grimy miners, many of them leather-jacketed foreigners-Sicilian and Spanish peasants, Greek sponge fishermen attracted by the wages-barricaded the streets with overturned coal cars. They ripped up rails, destroyed signal equipment, scattered broken glass at crossroads, where their wives shrilly ordered cars and trucks to turn back. At Quaregnon, 20,000 strikers and sympathizers jammed the city square under banners crying: "Death to the Coal and Steel Community!" "Work, not Charity...
...Harvard Divinity School graduate with a lingering devotion to the Boston Red Sox last week became the spiritual ruler of 1,300,000 Greek Orthodox believers in North and South America. Elected Archbishop of the Americas: black-bearded, handsome Metropolitan James of Malta, 48, a U.S. citizen who was born Jacob A. Koukouzes on the Turkish island of Imros. His impressive qualifications for the position, second biggest in his church: 16 years as a Greek Orthodox theologian and chief vicar of congregations in New York and New England, four years as Greek Orthodoxy's highly effective liaison agent...
Nothing seemed more logical than to give the American post to Archbishop James, succeeding Metropolitan Michael, who died in New York last July. But behind his election loomed a split in the Greek Orthodox Church, and outright mutiny against towering, white-bearded Athenagoras I of Constantinople, 268th Ecumenical Patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Athenagoras' enemies call him a "religio-politician," while his friends point to the unique problems of a job in which his predecessor went mad. The Patriarch of Constantinople has only the power of persuasion among three others of equal rank, ruling the patriarchates of Alexandria...