Word: grise
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Scene 2. On Cyprus, the London failure fanned mounting tension into mobbish terrorizing. The spiritual leader of Greek Orthodox Cypriots and the eminence grise of the enosis movement, 42-year-old Archbishop Myriarthefs Makarios, while renouncing violence, busily heightened the enosis fever both on Cyprus and the Greek mainland. Local British security officers recommended his deportation but London wisely decided to leave the influential archbishop alone. But more Royal Marine Commandos were sent to the island from Malta to disperse demonstrators, and guard against explosions. Still violence increased. Last week the British Institute at Nicosia was sacked by a shouting...
...PAULINE GRISE...